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PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE. Feb., 1890 . 
south-east of Warwickshire. The scene remains almost 
unchanged; and with the assistance of a few lantern slides 
(especially if our friend Mr. Jaques would supply moveable 
bodies of troops for the occasion), the eventful struggle of 
that day could be pictorially reproduced in a most graphic 
manner. This would be a novel and interesting way of 
teaching history. 
Warwickshire Worthies. —To illustrate the local incidents 
connected with the lives of famous men and women who have 
been born in Warwickshire will be a pleasant task for the 
camera-carrier. The plain farm-house in Arbury Park, near 
Nuneaton, acquires a lia.lo when we know it as the birthplace 
of “ George Eliotand all the country round is described 
in her various novels as accurately as in a guide-book. We 
shall associate the great antiquary—Dugdale, Garter King- 
at-Arms—with his home at Colesliill; David Cox with the 
Birmingham suburb of Harborne ; Bishop Yesey with Sutton 
Coldfield ; Dr. Priestley (the discoverer of oxygen) with the 
Birmingham suburb of Sparkbrook ; Dr. Arnold and Rugby 
School; Matthew Boulton (who sold “what all the world 
desired —power ”) with Birmingham ; Michael Drayton (the 
poet) with Hartshill; and many another famous name shall 
add interest to our work. But, far above all, we possess in 
Stratford-on-Avon and the neighbouring country such an 
illustration of the life and work of the immortal Shakespeare 
that this alone would be sufficient to render Warwickshire one 
of the most interesting spots of the whole world in the eyes 
of all civilised nations ! When the first Shakespeare jubilee 
was held at Stratford in 1768, the most popular song was that 
written by Garrick, in which the main feature is the connec¬ 
tion of the bard with the county :— 
“ Ye Warwickshire lads and ye lasses. 
See what at our jubilee passes ; 
Come revel away, rejoice, and. be glad, 
For the lad of all lads was a Warwickshire lad, 
Warwickshire lad, 
All be glad, 
For the lad of all lads was a Warwickshire lad.” 
The Warwickshire of To-day.— And, lastly, we come to 
our own times. It is clearly our duty to secure, so far as in 
us lies, a faithful representation of the state of things as it is 
to-day. For every year we are “making history,” and such a 
record will be just as much prized by posterity, as we should 
ourselves prize it did it exist for the past. Just think what 
