House and Garden 
Phillips, Frederick, Prince of Wales by Richardson, 
Jansen’s Duns Scotus and a portrait by Sir Philip 
Sidney. A rib of the fabulous dun cow slain by Guy 
of Warwick is preserved here. 
The chapel has a very modern appearance. The 
Shakespeare room contains a collection of prints and 
works relating to the poet and the wonderfully carved 
Kenilworth Buffet representing in its panels scenes 
from Sir Walter Scott’s romance on the visit of Queen 
Elizabeth to Kenilworth castle. 
The visitor to the cast... ,vill retain a rare hut per¬ 
haps confused vision of all kinds of rare treasures of 
art, “superb garde-robes, encoignures, cabinets, and 
tables of buhl and marqueterie of the most costly 
finish; splendid cups, flasks, and vases of ormolu, 
crystal, china and lava; Etruscan vases, marble and 
pietra dura tables; bronzes and busts displaying the 
utmost efforts of art; Limousin enamels, costly bi¬ 
jouteries and rare antiques,’’ in addition to the price¬ 
less canvasses that adorn the walls. 
Leaving the inner court, we pass through a port- 
cullised doorway across the moat to the gardens. The 
undulating ground of the moat has been laid out with 
much taste as a garden, and beyond are lawns girt 
with magnificent trees, oaks and elms, chestnuts, 
beeches and cedars of Lebanon. Then we come to 
the formal garden with its yews clipped into shape of 
divers birds, and flower beds lined with borders of 
box. 
But the great treasure of the gardens is the famous 
Warwick Vase, made of white marble and preserved 
in the huge greenhouse. It was fashioned by 
Lysippus, a great artist in the fourth century, B. C. 
The following appears on the modern base: 
HOC PRISTINAF. ARTIS 
ROMANAEQ. MAGNIFICENTIAE MONUMENTUM 
RUDERIBUS VILLAE TIBURTINAE 
HADRIANO AUG. IN DELICIIS HABITAE EFFOSUM 
RESTITUTI CURAVIT 
EQUES GUI.IELMUS HAMILTON 
A GEORGIO III, MAG. BRIT. REX 
AD SICIL REGEM FERDINANDUM IV LEGATUS 
ET IN PATRIAM TRANSMISSUM 
PATRIO BONARUM ARTIUM GENIO DICAVIT 
AN. AC. N. CIC. DCCLXXIV. 
From this lengthy inscription we gather that the vase 
was dug out of the ruins of the Tiburtine villa, the 
favourite abode of the Emperor Hadrian; that Sir 
William Hamilton, the ambassador of King George 
III. to Ferdinand IV., King of Sicily, took care that 
it should he restored and sent to England in 1774. 
It is a beautiful specimen of early Greek art, the 
carvings representing Bacchanalian symbols and vine 
leaves and grapes. 
We might follow the dead earls to their last resting- 
place in the church of St. Mary’s but time presses. 
Warwick Castle will live in our memories as a per¬ 
fect example of a mediaeval fortress, adapted to the 
needs of a modern mansion, and we are grateful that 
l ime has dealt gently with its frowning battlements, 
and left us so much that recalls the historical asso¬ 
ciations that cluster around this fair mid-England 
stronghold. 
FROM THE ISLAND 
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