La route de Brighton : l'autoroute classique vers le sud . les de son église de towerpeering au-dessus des branches les plus en haut des arbres éloignés. Bowllney, comme le peuple de campagne prononcent le nom, vaut un peu de détour, car c'est un compact, pittoresque qui pourrait presque avoir été conçu par anartist avec une seule pensée pour la composition picturale, si bien faire ses arbres, les maisons, anciennes et nouvelles, thechurch, Et le Eight Bells inn, groupe pour l'effet. En Bas de la route, plutôt sur un mile éloigné de Bolney, et regardant si remarquablement pittoresque de l'autoroute que même les moins préoccupés par les antiquités doivent ne pas

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The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . les of its church towerpeering over the topmost branches of distant trees. Bowlney, as the countryfolk pronounce the name, is worth a little detour, for it is a compact, picturesquespot that might almost have been designed by anartist with a single thought for pictorial composition, so well do its trees, the houses, old and new, thechurch, and the Eight Bells inn, group for effect.Down the road, rather over a mile distant fromBolney, and looking so remarkably picturesque fromthe highway that even the least preoccupied withantiquities must needs stop and admire, is HicksteadPlace, a small but beautiful residence, the seat of MissDavidson, dating from the time of Henry the Seventh, with a curious detached building in two floors, of thesame or even somewhat earlier period, on the lawn ;remarkable for the large vitrified bricks in its gables, worked into rough crosses and supposed to indicate aformer use as a chapel. History, however, is silentthat point; but, as the inquirer may discover for. 248 THE BRIGHTON ROAD himself, it now fulfils the twin offices of a studio anda lumber room. The parish church of Twineham, little more than a mile away, is of the same period, and built of similar materials. Hickstead Place hasbeen in the same family for close upon four hundredyears, and as an old house without much in the wayof a history, and with its ancient features largelyretained and adapted to modern domestic needs, is astriking example both of the continuity and theplacidity of English life. The staircase walls arefrescoed in a blue monochrome with sixteenth-centuryrepresentations of field-sports and hunting scenes, verycurious and interesting. The roof is covered withslabs of Horsham stone, and the oak entrance isoriginal. Ancient yews, among them one clipped toresemble a bear sitting on his rump, give an air ofdistinction to the lawn, completed by a pair ofeighteenth-century wrought-iron gates between redbrick pillars. Say

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