William Black

But it is less interesting to most people than Wales or Scotland.

A week or two among the lochs and over moor and mountain should be welcome to anybody who knows his Walter Scott, his William Black, or his Robert Burns.

From Scotland or northern England, you may, if you like, cross to Norway and Sweden.

The trip to the land of the midnight sun is now the proper thing and a most enjoyable thing.

Most of the places and people he describes being of what is now known as Dorset, the country north and west of Southampton and Winchester.

Going farther north, one comes to Warwickshire and the region from Oxford to Derby, the scene of Scott's Kenilworth and Woodstock, and George Eliot's best novels.

At Stratford, William Black's Judith Shakespeare will edify.

Then comes Rugby, known to every boy because Tom Brown went to school there.