ANGLO-MANIA

Stand by for an aristocratic orgy of Stubbs, marmalade, battered tweeds, and big slobbering dogs. Washington is girding its loins for the National Gallery of Art's major exhibition, "The Treasure Houses of Britain." More than two hundred stately homes have been raided to give America a guided tour of the ultimate countryseat: the Van Dyck from Broadlands, the Maximilian armor from Warwick Castle, Catherine the Greats Wedgwood tureen from Shugborough, the Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth I from Hatfield House, the Chippendale commode from Harewood House, and more, much more. So, to get you in the mood for the arrival of its patrons, the Prince and Princess of Wales, we request the pleasure of your company in a thirty-page romp through some of the less obvious corridors of English country life. Don't forget to bring your Burberry.