SPECIAL ARTICLE. THE PATHS OF GLORY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18906, 22 January 1927, Page 13

SPECIAL ARTICLE. THE PATHS OF GLORY.

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[g, \X. P-A. Cbesswei*.] . "tw ou whose account it ancnietolivoinnamp- ' to houses at different times Health, a little defaced :; "» W .£t lies in a hollow of the •' Wj'*i."f these house. Vale ■"S'ltfflStands on the northern edge **' ilfaeing the Heath, and re"^♦„fl print I saw of it. It • hoover, to have been the '**JBfc K*ata visited Hunt, and f'Jnght on the sitting-room «ofa, of thero being no spare room *?££ i whether Hunt lived *■ J,' after that remarkable *IZ I'eouW not, without more re*"Ttban I l'»ve time for, discover, rt ale yellowish stone house ot * I,I .SJ V«y well proportioned, *°* t sllback from the gate, and #**".£. for" a fairly large gar*"SSttktd M«Wh»* d«mp and W-,7i5 when I saw it this autumn, toce the 'fir trees, the MS*^ ? om the gate to the pilrtSS nmai'n exactly as shown in " re M„ As the house is privately lM Hi was unable to go inside. "*** *„ h«Me South Villa, whose Ztl STihSt certainly the # ,jW»J p()et „ was one r«iofcttagesonanght:of-way *"* . «nlv two little streets in the w? immediately behind Vale [ & ? Se 53 South Villa no ttJE burhas been replaced 1 nSJSn o f the snme na Ti • si \u\ fflSSSl'iiMe of .atone that jsstjl ' !lSrSrough a tiny garden of the K door, the sites of which SlFtoescaped the horror that has *R* it! WSB'in Hompstead in which •aSSfterwards lodged with his r&ffiMtte and Tom. is described IFffifcand biographjesi as being • 8-liS» «ri n« 4 to a . tav ?u n 1 LA Gree » Man;. but the ■ fiUSTIW discover, if indeed ' UfSnVconier of Well Walk. '■ ffiffih mAi lii s been rebuilt and Jm and according to one authobuilding, nqiy the Well Hotel, covers both the sites or and of Bentley's cotvfi Wfl *ha brpUimsloaded. 0 Thaw s,3r stands next to the Well Walk iim but in Christchurch rpa4 and f2 jq Well Wall?, an old cottage, Iffy]) wag certainly standing in Keats's L'gsn an which, fa the opinion of its bresent occupier, a woman who takes.. Hwking-clasa lodgers, was the pottage - jn vhicli Bentley, the postman, lived, tyere that so it could, be none other tbgn the house in which Keats began JMyjnion and Tom Keats died and Ooarge Keats left for America 1 but would Keats invariably have spoken of living in Well Walk had the hpusfo been round the »pof In Ohrißtehuron »adt I had not time to go Into the matter, which I. belief could he k sifted. The cottage has every quajiflcation fop tho honour, The street ja narmr\imd the cottage garden, next to mmodern hotel, as IhaVe said, is di:)<«!s from the street by a low paling ', fence. Inside the gate there k * 1 itrw'xht path wish low box*horders on eftier fide, behind which are a few clujwithemum hushes and little else, in etch half of the garden. The cott*» i».» low one of two stories, briok Wow~»nd blacked timber above, and ; Jm t red tiled roof; but most gignifii;,ent of all, the whole front of it is sttjptjiered jn, an enormous wistaria Sm of ft great ago. I should say, beyWj?ph ite tiny front window? can Wk " **"• T,,o, 'Rb i(l was NovemPBIBWi I was there, the vine was still $m 'nth leaves. It is the very place |jj|WHneh a§ Keats would have #Pfe On the ground floor are two dmsttiilg-rooms. and a large kind that might have been a ■sßlSn ,e davs w^len Hampstead 'VaißSi'y fa rms " A steep, narrow U'M sWs t up to a tiny/landing, and bedroonts with low qojl■4fiKrT c fi. Bre so exactl y °f the period ;■ BPfc *W poet lived apd so unlike now . ct)mmo,l 'y seen in ton - is too delightfully £wV 's su<; ' , c< " lv ictions right it Jsgp.'Wj of tHeaa rpoms, perhaps - jßflSr'J ß " one P ,aced quaintly Keats matched his brother ltffi£i I fi. ffant of P roo ' discouraged mwm taktpg any particular noFice Sifwuw, The reafc of Christolutrch l «KMfflf ,op Wis' side < is ,ined with ©ffllHy •! Vwtoriaii stamp. Wte" *° tll « hotel in Well 103 westflr, y of a row of i" Bem, 'd eta clied houses, is l -K»IJS! Wrge , and . Pretentious to aKwA w "'? an 8 . in 1817 > and is than thafc d ate. WMll r^ffi 4 ,*. Bei »toy is desoribed JaB.SC" ttßt this waß the site J or? jt nofc -for the Sift 15a i? r ¥» wtta»B round the WKkSff' . at * ndin E- I rather iniM MS? m s* mention ed before, L ®BffiSi*i hQW WTe n *ne sites WS?' ~d e G r M n Man. |jS3fW*i » wgpden bench, lias W e ron} .W e) eastern end of T WOl7T* rt **« fleathiiltat T? vei ;i a »«■.* on tho 1 !! °* ,ron and wood by means of SmSi'v s ? r . likelv to be&sW* on ATi f * shed on P rivat « ■MSJ *.*»? artier of Welf Walk ■ skirts the southern >, and faces the last « t«es that run the be Walk, and tjivi4e the footpath, which Sral feet above the the elms would once ndld shade, while the W Would have shel■m the no.th; and Mn Ws's'time, Place m beauty and Jts was very fond of tone four*! him "sobm mto a handker'i it was that Keats * hands with ColerK of it a moment * « death in that ,b )% Httlo changed, whiqnoble promenm cpntury%n nc S«te spring and the which 6rst made J>Jead famous. But «deal of noi.v traf- ' wet'a seat the view W been h Mdci , by 0 JWQ a deep enough 0 *IWW that a monu'ttV pets, is to be » volumes, with Ulustratious, and Mrat time ail that m\y of dogs, their fm, from the earlithe present