ABSTRACT
All roads and paths in the English village centre in the church; from there has radiated much of English life, its ethics, laws, ways of speech; such art as it knew was in its architecture, its frescoes, painted roofs, and stained glass; and its monuments linked the generations. The admission must be made that one of the difficulties in the past was that such collections were made by private individuals—and, alas, sometimes by public collectors—in a most haphazard manner. Although the indication on a map of a road does not verify a right of way over it, the existence of that road on a succession of maps covering a long stretch of time is a piece of evidence that a court would not neglect. In the new Manchester and Sheffield public libraries fine apartments are devoted in the same manner.
