Excerpt from Catalogue of an Entirely New Series of Photographs: Of Warwick, Uy's Cliffe, Kenilworth Castle, Leamington, Coventry, Toneleigh, Stratford-on-Avon, &C A sweet English Village says Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke, is this Stratford! Seated on the edge of a silvery river, green with turfy banks and woody slopes, picturesque with cottage houses and cottage gardens; crowned with a village church, ivy clad, surrounded by moss grown graves, approached by a lime tree avenue and its slender spire tapering towards heaven. The scenery of Stratford and its neighbourhood is not, strictly speaking, romantic, but here and there it is eminently beautiful and almost everywhere it is pleasant, not only in itself but also in its associations. Of the fine open valley on the left bank of the Avon it forms a central attraction. We look upon the river flowing windingly through the fertile meadows of the dale, with singular complacency, and this is heightened into delight as the eye takes in the upland ranges, the tree-mottled heights and th Degreese pretty pastoral villages which engird it. Though now, for the most part, a neatly built modem-looking township, the traditions and associations of the place have quite properly given a sort of Elizabethan, we had almost said Shakespearean touch to its recent progress and improvement. It carries on indeed some trade in corn, malt, ales, &c., but it is not on account of its manufactures or commerce that Stratford is annually the resort of thousands of enthusiastic pilgrim spirits it is because, of this England of ours, the noblest product of it, priceless Shakespeare was born, lived and died in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.