Dale Nelson continues his survey of Arthur Machen’s reading list with a review of Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder.
The Enchanted City: To-morrow the King and Queen set out from Buckingham Palace on their sacred errand; and at the Palace people were gathered in thousands before eleven o’clock. They stood six deep by the railings, they were standing in dense black clusters on the steps of the Memorial, they had made a line in the centre of the roadway, leaving spaces on either side for the wheeled traffic.
