THE TRAINING OF YOUNG ENGLAND 43 CHAPTER V ENGLAND AT WORK 64 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND AT PLAY 81 CHAPTER VII THE CITIES OF ENGLAND 101 CHAPTER VIII THE RIVERS OF ENGLAND 114 CHAPTER IX ENGLAND'S SHRINES 125 CHAPTER X THE POORER POPULATION 137 CHAPTER XI THE ARTS IN ENGLAND 155 CHAPTER XII POLITICAL LIFE IN ENGLAND 171 CHAPTER XIII THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND 187 INDEX 203 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. St. Paul's from the River Thames _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. The Chalk Cliffs of England 1 3. North Side, Canterbury Cathedral 8 4. Richmond, Yorkshire 17 5. Norman Staircase, King's School, Canterbury 24 6. A Kent Manor-House and Garden 33 7. A Sussex Village 40 8. The Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College, Cambridge 49 9. St. Magdalen Tower and College, Oxford 56 10. Broad Street, Oxford, looking West 59 11. Eton Upper School 62 12. Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge, London 65 13. Harvesting in Herefordshire 72 14. Football at Rugby School 81 15. Cricket at "Lord's" 88 16. Trout-fishing on the Itchen, Hampshire 97 17. Dean's Yard, Westminster 104 18. Sailing Boats on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London 107 19. Watergate Street, Chester 110 20. The River Rother, Sussex 115 21. Thames at Richmond, Surrey 118 22. Spring by the Thames 121 23. Windsor Castle from Fellows' Eyot: Early Spring 124 24. Glastonbury Abbey, Somersetshire 128 25. Anne Hathaway's Cottage near Stratford-on-Avon 137 26. Gipsies on a Gloucestershire Common 144 27. The Tower from the Tower Bridge, looking West 153 28. Westminster Abbey from the end of the Embankment 160