Of Walks and Walking Tours

Of Walks and Walking Tours has the subtitle An Attempt to Find a Philosophy and a Creed. The text says Wordsworth must have been an ideal country walker and that The Excursion is the harvest of innumerable walks. The text says, with the qualifier I venture to think, that all great souls were at some period of their lives walkers in the country. The text says Jesus of Nazareth spent forty days in the wilderness, and that the three years of his mission were, we know, spent in unceasing wandering.

A description of this seemingly peaceful and sequestered spot says that hanging about the unpretentious hostelry were two specimens of what was once humanity that made the heart ache to look on. The text says that but for here and there the slow and lugubrious sounds of hymn tunes played on old and middle-aged organs, the little town might be a buried city of the East. An index lists, among others, Knapsack, contents of; Instincts, primitive; and Life, a process.