I. THE German traveller in England is least likely to forget his first view of Albion's earliest charms, the white cliffs of Dover rising out of a fresh sea. green He treads the land of Kent with the feeling that he is here treading a new land apart from all he has yet seen. Other faces, other houses, other landscapes, another sky, and another mode of life, suddenly come before him, but withal an echo, as from the distant years, brings him home. He remembers that his own past greets him here, thinking of those words in Camden's 'Britannia': "Here was the first Saxon rule established in Britain A.c. 456, and from them it was called Cantwararŷc." (Edit. Francof., p. 242.) Where now the red banner with the blue cross waves, there fluttered once the Saxon flag with the white horse-the horse whose figure adorned the Saxon ships as it adorns the straw roofs of peasants' houses in Lower Saxony at the present day, the white steed which Hengist and Horsa bore on their shield, and which, through the |