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s that glimmer through his brain when the shadows of the eternal night are falling and the ramble of life is done."--_From the Preface_. "He offers something more than guidance to the American traveller. He is a convincing and eloquent interpreter of the august memories and venerable sanctities of the old country."--_Saturday Review_. "The book is delightful reading."--_Scribner's Monthly_. "Enthusiastic and yet keenly critical notes and comments on English life and scenery."--_Scotsman_. MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. GRAY DAYS AND GOLD. 18MO, CLOTH, 75 CENTS. CONTENTS. Classic Shrines. Haunted Glens and Houses. Old York. The Haunts of Moore. Beautiful Bath. The Lakes and Fells of Wordsworth. Shakespeare Relics at Worcester. Byron and Hucknall Torkard. Historic Nooks and Corners. Shakespeare's Town. Up and Down the Avon. Rambles in Arden. The Stratford Fountain. Bosworth Field. The Home of Dr. Johnson. From London to Edinburgh. Into the Highlands. Highland Beauties. The Heart of Scotland. Sir Walter Scott. Elegiac Memorials. Scottish Pictures. Imperial Ruins. The Land of Marmion. At Vesper Time. This book, which is intended as a companion to _Shakespeare's England_, relates to the gray days of an American wanderer in the British Isles, and to the gold of thought and fancy that can be found there. MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. GRAY DAYS AND GOLD. 18MO, CLOTH, 75 CENTS. PRESS NOTICES. "Mr. Winter's graceful and meditative style in his English sketches has recommended his earlier volume upon (Shakespeare's) England to many readers, who will not need urging to make the acquaintance of this companion book, in which the traveller guides us through the quiet and romantic scenery of the mother-country with a mingled affection and sentiment of which we have had no example since Irving's day."--_The Nation_. "As friendly and good-humoured a book on English scenes as any American has written since Washington Irving."--_Daily News_, _London_. "Much that is bright and best in our literature is brought once more to our dulled memories. Indeed, we know of but few volumes containing so much of observation, kindly comment, philosophy, and artistic weight as this unpretentious little book."--_Chicago Herald_. "They who have never visited the scenes
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