strenuous
advocate
for the
revival of
the old
rural
games and
holiday
observances,
and is
deeply
read in
the
writers,
ancient
and
modern,
who have
treated on
the
subject.
Indeed,
his
favorite
range of
reading is
among the
authors
who
flourished
at least
two
centuries
since,
who, he
insists,
wrote and
thought
more like
true
Englishmen
than any
of their
successors.
He even
regrets
sometimes
that he
had not
been born
