Publisher's Synopsis
The American novelist Henry James moved to England in 1876 and became a citizen in 1914. This series of articles, written during the period 1870-90, describes the countryside, universities, cathedrals and manners and customs of the English people in a world now almost completely vanished.;This volume has been illustrated with the colour paintings of Constable, Turner, Sisley, Monet, Pissarro, Goodwin and Pether, and the black and white drawings of Constable and Joseph Pennell.