Now, recollections of this kind seem to cling around old-fashioned inns. And what quaint-looking buildings they were, with their projecting bow windows, long low rooms, and great beams supporting the front externally and the ceiling internally. Few indeed of these old village inns now remain, but we give two, one from Alfriston in Sussex, and the other from Wingham in Kent. The former is an excellent example of Tudor work, half timbered construction, with wooden mullions, bow windows, and doorways, with a most curious fragment of a sign representing a dragon preserved at one corner. Since we made this sketch the building has, we believe, been restored, but we trust the old dragon has survived. The roof is covered with thin slabs of stone called “shingles,” not an uncommon kind of roofing in neighbourhoods where stone is cheap and plentiful. The other inn, which we have sketched at Wingham, Kent, is a very remarkable building, portions of which certainly date from the fourteenth century. The great roof, which is visible from the upper rooms, is very interesting, and seems at one time to have formed a kind of hall undivided from end to end (the porch with its bow windows above it is a charming feature). Possibly it may have been a primitive concert room, and resounded with those sweet old English madrigals of Bird, Dowland, and Orlando Gibbons. There is a fine old Gothic inn at Glastonbury with a front of entirely cut stone, and the picturesque old “King’s Head” at Chigwell, the original of Dickens’s “Maypole” in _Barnaby Rudge_, is a good example of the Stuart period. The bishops and clergy of various denominations who have started “The People’s Refreshment House Association, Limited,” have no doubt the idea of replacing the ordinary village “public-house” by something more nearly resembling the old “hostelrie,” in fact, of replacing the mere drinking-shop by an establishment where rational refreshment can be obtained by those who require it, and should they succeed in their enterprise they will earn the thanks of all thinking people and be doing a good work in the cause of temperance. H. W. BREWER. (_To be continued._) CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH. BY MARGARET INNES. CHAPTER IX. MORE ABOUT THE CHINAMEN.