NOT far from the ancient cathedral city of Rochester, and the war-like town of Chatham, there still stands an old, square, red-brick mansion in a lovely garden. Gardens in Kent are always lovely, but the garden of Magnus Hall, stretching down its gentle hillside to the waters of the Medway, is still, as it has been for over three hundred years, one of the loveliest of them all.
About the old house stretches, on sides and rear, a wooded parkof oak, and beech, and chestnut, and elmwhich grows most densely in its vicinity, thinning out into occasional clumps of shade and foliage in the green meadows that reach to the outskirts of the estate.