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but he does not tell us what she has been doing ever since. When he sees two Cumberland streams the Brathay and Rothay flowing down, first to a confluence, and afterwards to the sea, he fancies "a soul-knit pair," man and wife, mingling their waters and gliding to their final haven in kindred love, The haven Contemplation sees above!
All three contain a good deal of sound historical matter. H.W. WILLIAMS. Russia of the Russians. 1914. 6s. net. ROTHAY REYNOLDS. My Russian Year. 1913. 10s. 6d. net. Two good books dealing with life in contemporary Russia.
Rothay Reynolds, in his interesting and sympathetic book My Russian Year, writes in much the same strain: "In Russia God and His Mother, saints and angels, seem near; men rejoice or stand ashamed beneath their gaze. The people of the land have made it a vast sanctuary, perfumed with prayer and filled with the memories of heroes of the faith.
On looking again at the Rothay, I find I did it some injustice; for at the bridge, in its present swollen state, it is nearer twenty yards than twenty feet across. Its waters are very clear, and it rushes along with a speed which is delightful to see, after an acquaintance with the muddy and sluggish Avon and Leam.
His lordship do look mortal badly, added the landlady, shaking her head dolefully; 'and I remember him such a fine young gentleman, when he used to come down the Rothay with the otter hounds, running along the bank joomping in and out of the beck up to his knees in the water and now to see him, so white and mashiated, and broken-down like, in the very prime of life, all along of living out in a hot country, among blackamoors, which is used to it poor, ignorant creatures and never knew no better.
Nevertheless, rain is rain, and wets a man just as much among the mountains as anywhere else; so we have been kept within doors all day, till an hour or so ago, when J and I went down to the village in quest of the post-office. We took a path that leads from the hotel across the fields, and, coming into a wood, crosses the Rothay by a one-arched bridge and passes the village church.
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