...ARTHUR'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. The ancient Britons: their houses — clothes — and food. You know, my dear little Arthur, that the country...was very little room for houses, and still less for corn-fields, and there were no gardens. The houses were made of wicker-work; that is, of sticks put...

...instinct that led Lady Callcott to open Little Arthur's History of England with the statement that, ‘a very long time ago, Britain was so full of trees, that there was very little room for houses...' At much the same time, Sir Walter Scott opened his Ivanhoe, the book from which many English men and...