of road as the finest traversed since leaving Liverpool, both for width and smoothness of surface, it being a veritable boulevard.  Arriving at Coventry I call on “Brother Sturmey, " a gentleman well and favorably known to readers of ’cycling literature everywhere; and, as I feel considerably like deserving reasonably gentle treatment after perseveringly pressing forward sixty miles in spite of the rain, I request him to steer me into the Cyclists’ Touring Club Hotel — an office which he smilingly performs, and thoughtfully admonishes the proprietor to handle me as tenderly as possible.  I am piloted around to take a hurried glance at Coventry, visiting, among other objects of interest, the Starley Memorial.  This memorial is interesting to ’cyclers from having been erected by public subscription in recognition of the great interest Mr. Starley took in the ’cycle industry, he having been, in fact, the father of the interest in Coventry, and, consequently, the direct author of the city’s present prosperity.  The mind of the British small boy along my route has been taxed to its utmost to account for my white military helmet, and various and interesting are the passing remarks heard in consequence.  The most general impression seems to be that I am direct from the Soudan, some youthful Conservatives blandly intimating The Starley Memorial, Coventry, that I am the advance-guard of a general scuttle of the army out of Egypt, and that presently whole regiments of white-helmeted wheelmen will come whirling along the roads on nickel-plated steeds, some even going so far as to do me the honor of calling me General Wolseley; while others — rising young Liberals, probably — recklessly call me General Gordon, intimating by this that the hero of Khartoum was not killed, after all, and is proving it by sweeping through England on a bicycle, wearing a white helmet to prove his identity!

A pleasant ride along a splendid road, shaded for miles with rows of spreading elms, brings me to the charming old village of Dunchurch, where everything seems moss-grown and venerable with age.  A squatty, castle-like church-tower, that has stood the brunt of many centuries, frowns down upon a cluster of picturesque, thatched cottages of primitive architecture, and ivy-clad from top to bottom; while, to make the picture complete, there remain even the old wooden stocks, through the holes of which the feet of boozy unfortunates were wont to be unceremoniously thrust in the good old times of rude simplicity; in fact, the only really unprimitive building about the place appears to be a newly erected Methodist chapel.  It couldn’t be — no, of course it couldn’t be possible, that there is any connecting link between the American peculiarity of elevating the feet on the window-sill or the drum of the heating-stove and this old-time custom of elevating the feet of those of our ancestors possessed of boozy, hilarious proclivities!  At Weedon Barracks I make a short halt to watch the soldiers