Page 1. Vignette: Summer-house, near Claremont Title 2. Old English Hall 1 3. Grouse-Shooting in the Highlands 29 4. Oxen Ploughing 58 5. A Garden Scene 67 6. The Solitary House 139 7. Cattle in the Shade 164 8. Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gipsies 165 9. Ladies personating Gipsies 195 10. Daleswomen going to a Shout 221 11. Old Dalesman and Traveller 248 12. Figures on a Screen in Annesley Hall 286 13. The Otter Hunt, by Bewick 302 14. Classical Rural Scenes 305 15. Scene in a Town Street, by Bewick 324 16. Wild Horses in New Forest 366 17. Purkiss’s Cottage, New Forest 376 18. Charcoal-burners’ Hut 379 19. Wild English Cattle in Chillingham Park 395 20. Woman driving Geese 431 21. Procession of Village Maidens at Whitsuntide 444 22. Morgan Lewis shewing the last haunt of the Fairies 479 23. The Village Inn 480 24. A Sea Scene 502 25. A Donkey Race 515 26. Bird-catching 573 27. Tickling Trout 615 CONTENTS. PART I. LIFE OF THE ARISTOCRACY. CHAPTER I. Page Pre-eminence of England as a Place of Country Residence -- Its Political and Moral Position -- the Conveniences conferred by the Perfection of the Arts on Social Life -- Its Literature, Spirit of Freedom, Religious Feeling, and Philanthropic Institutions -- the Delightfulness of its Country Residences; with its Parks, Lawns, Woods, Gardens, etc. -- the Variety of Scenery in a small compass -- Advantages of its Climate, notwithstanding all just cause of complaint -- Its Soil sanctified by Noble Deeds, and Intellectual Renown -- Real Superiority of England as a Place of Residence; shewn by its Effects on Foreigners -- Willis’s Description of its Effect on him 1 CHAPTER II.