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that our pasteboard age has destroyed so many 

 of these relics. 



"The English have not yet been guilty of this folly, 

 and nowhere else are family possessions more re- 

 ligiously and more proudly preserved. We also find 

 there many estates of mere bourgeois families which 

 for more than six centuries have passed from father 

 to son, and with so little change in general that, 

 for instance, in Malahide in Ireland, the family 

 seat of the Talbots, even the woodwork and the 

 furniture of entire apartments date back to those 

 early years. And who can behold the splendours 

 of majestic Warwick Castle, with its colossal tower 

 a thousand years old, or the royal seat of the Duke 

 of Northumberland, without feeling penetrated with 

 romantic awe, and without delighting in the match- 

 less beauty of these grand piles?" 



An extract from Prince Piickler's Tour of England 

 gives a wonderful idea of Warwick Castle from the 

 landscape critic's point of view: 



"It was an enchanted palace decked in the most 

 charming garb of poetry, and surrounded by all 

 the majesty of history, the sight of which still fills 

 me with delighted astonishment. " Again he writes: 

 "Going on, you lose sight of the castle for a while, 

 and soon find yourself before a high embattled wall, 

 built of large blocks of stone, covered by Time with 

 moss and creeping plants. Lofty iron gates slowly 



