... KINGS' PLAYGROUND The Story of the Gardens of Hampton Court Nineteen years before Wolsey took over the Manor of Hampton, the Wars of the Roses had ended on Bos worth Field and the Tudor Age had begun-- an age marked by a little more serenity than its frowning predecessor; one in which the King's friends busied themselves with con solidating their new positions, and built for themselves fine ...

... SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Presenting The Edwardian Story Shaw Desmond, that ebullient Anglo- Irish writer who has set his fiction and has lived his life against a wide range of backgrounds, who in an adventurous career has sailed round the Horn, travelled 7,000 miles in Africa, worked in the Fleet Street of Lord Northcliffe, and contested an elec tion against the legendary John Burns, has ...