PLEASANT DAYS IN PLEASANT PLACES. A SUMMER DAY AT DORNEY AND A HALF-HOUR'S walk from Eton, up the river to Boveney, will bring the tourist along a pleasant English lane on to a broad open common, which at almost every season of the year is thickly studded with cows, sheep, and horses. Behind him the towers of Windsor Castle rise proudly into the air; the Thames on his left 'wanders along his silver-winding way.' Before him he will behold a mass of deep green foliage, and a cluster of most umbrageous elms, such as perhaps is not to be matched elsewhere in England. That grove of elms surrounds Dorney Court, a picturesque and peaceful country mansion, mainly built of timber-such a house as one would scarcely expect to find within little more than twenty miles of the metropolis; for so perfect is its seclusion B |