Abstract

An English Winter Watering-Place

The article presents information about a winter watering-place in London, England. It is sufficient that in going from one end of the place to the other, the author had a greater sense of having taken a long, straight walk, than he had done since the author last measured the remarkable length of Broadway. This is not a strikingly picturesque image, and it must be confessed that the beauty of Hastings does not reside in a soft irregularity or a rural exuberance. Like all the larger English watering-places it is simply a little London super mare. There is always picturesqueness to be found in England if one will take the trouble of looking for it; but it must be conceded that at hastings this element is less obtrusive than it might be.