The Cottage Homes of England

Set in unpolluted country, unshaken by motor traffic, Helen Allingham's are the cottages we should all like to own. She painted them in peaceful Edwardian days, in spring and summer, under cloudless skies. Although at this time she lived in London, she could not keep away from the country and particularly the Surrey she once knew and loved. It is significant that the only touches of autumn that appear in the sixty plus superb illustrations occur in the single London scene, a picture of Wyldes Fa