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This book has great promise and a couple worthwhile chapters including an opening piece on the actual weekends promised by the title and a closing chapter on the servants lives, but between there is much tedium. Chapter after chapter of how Lord Sumblebum hired some known society decorator to do up Moldy Manor. And that this was all covered in Country Life. We're supposed to care but with nary a picture to support most of them we're just left confused. How useful is a description of a Manor house with "high gables and ivy" with not so much as a single picture. In particular the chapter on the handful of modern country houses just left me screaming "show me". A couple random pictures didn't do the job. Descriptions of lavish dinners and receptions were similarly crying out for anything to bring the text yo life. Certainly well researched but would be much more interesting with half the text and dozens of additional illustrations.