commercial country in the sense that epithet is used for her; and let
us still hope that she will not soon become so. She might surely as
well be called feudal England, or chivalrous England. If in western
civilized Europe, there does exist a nation among whom there are high
signors, and with whom the owners of the land are the true aristocracy,
the aristocracy is trusted as being best and fittest to rule, that
nation is the English. Choose out the ten leading men of each great
European people. Choose them in France, in Austria, Sardinia, Prussia,
Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Spain (?), and then select the ten in England
whose names are best known as those of leading statesmen; the result
will show in which country there still exists the closest attachment
to, the sincerest trust in, the old feudal and now so-called landed
interests.

England a commercial country! Yes; as Venice was. She may excel other
nations in commerce, but yet it is not that in which she most prides
herself, in which she most excels. Merchants as such are not the first
men among us; though it perhaps be open, barely open, to a merchant to
become one of them. Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is
very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the
noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not be in your time be
esteemed the noblest work of any Englishman.

Greshamsbury Park was very large; it lay on the outside of the angle
formed by the village street, and stretched away on two sides without
apparent limit or boundaries visible from the village road or house.
Indeed, the ground on this side was so broken up into abrupt hills, and
conical-shaped, oak-covered excrescences, which were seen peeping up
through and over each other, that the true extent of the park was much
magnified to the eye. It was very possible for a stranger to get into