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things in an old town, which "have character as men have," which he traces to the power of individuals in England, and associates with "ownership, and what comes from ownership—the love of home." Again and again he reverts to the middle part of the South Downs, to Gumber and No Man's Land, the Rother and the Arun and Amberley Wildbrooks and to the Weald. But his pleasure in reciting long lists of rivers and hills, and towns on rivers, northward and westward of these is equally noticeable. If he had anything to learn from Ruskin in this kind, he learnt it. He is such a geographer as I wish many historians were, such a poet as all geographers ought to be, and hardly any other has been.
