International studio (26.1905)

EARLY ENGLISH COACH EDWARD PENFIELD

ments followed, of course. The two-wheeler crossed
the channel.
Across the page, above, we have the English
version. This style of coach was not, be it ^ob-
served, designed to ford the channel. It was for
progress along the King's highway, though, with
such extensive springs, the motion may have re-
sembled a trip by sea. Travel in this form wag
hardly riding or driving, but somewhat analagous
to a special car on a rough roadbed with a train of
locomotives.
Mr. Penfield has recently been comparing the
modern and earlier styles of travel in the trip to
Spain from which he has just returned. He visited

the Alhambra, Madrid, went on to Gibraltar in the
familiar tourist route, and then bought horses and
worked inland again. The horses were small, he
says, and no great distances could be covered. On
the whole, he seems to have been more charmed
with the neat little country called Holland, where
the mills of the Dutch grind colonies, than with the
land of the heroic gentleman who has ridden down
to fame charging windmills, lance and horse. But
Mr. Penfield was gone three months, and he is a
man who sees all things, draws all things, paints all
things, particularly when they are alive. Billy
would probably aver that he had returned from
Spain with the best work he had yet done.


SCENE IN HOLLAND

EDWARD PENFIELD