Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Clausen, J. M. W. Turner and Walter Sickert. England by the story-writers of the day: Charles Reade's railway flirtation in a tunnel, Amelia B. Edwards's four-fifteen express, Thomas Hardy's three strangers at a shepherd's christening, Wilkie Collins's widow, Anthony Hope's philosopher in an apple orchard, and a black bag that goes to the wrong man. Assembled for American readers by Scribner's in 1896, the volume is a good map of what the English thought worth telling about themselves at the end of the century. Sixty plates of English landscape and figure painting, from George Clausen and Myles Birket Foster among others, give the volume's homegrown tales their matching scenery.