It connects Leamington by a short cut with the small neighboring village of Lillington, a place which impresses an American observer with its many points of contrast to the rural aspects of his own country.

Elliston, according to the Memoirs of him by George Raymond, which have Lamb's phrase, "Joyousest of once embodied spirits," for motto, opened a circulating library at Leamington in the name of his sons William and Henry, and served there himself at times.

Nevertheless, if a man were seeking the bustle of society, he might find it more readily in Leamington than in most other English towns.

From Leamington to Stratford-on-Avon the distance is eight or nine miles, over a road that seemed to me most beautiful.

I remember such a path, which connects Leamington with the small village of Lillington.