e.

It is not in lands such as these that any real American can ever feel
himself a stranger. There lies for so many of us the ancestral home--in
that "land of just and of old renown," that "royal throne of kings," that
"precious stone set in the silver sea," that "dear, dear land, dear for
her reputation through the world."

F.W.H.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--PART ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND INTRODUCTION TO
VOLS. I AND II--By the Editor

I--LONDON

A GENERAL SKETCH--By Goldwin Smith
WESTMINSTER ABBEY--By Washington Irving
THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ST. PAUL'S--By Augustus J.C. Hare
THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE--By H.A. Taine
THE TEMPLE'S GALLERY OF GHOSTS PROM DICKENS--By J.R.G. Hassard
THE TEMPLE CHURCH--By Augustus J.C. Hare
LAMBETH CHURCH AND PALACE--By Augustus J.C. Hare
DICKENS'S LIMEHOUSE HOLE--By J.E.G. Hassard
WHITEHALL--By Augustus J. C. Hare
THE TOWER--By W. Hepworth Dixon
ST. JAMES'S PALACE--By Augustus J. C. Hare
LITERARY SHRINES OF LONDON--By William Winter

II--CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS

CANTERBURY--By the Editor
OLD YORK--By William Winter
YORK AND LINCOLN COMPARED--By Edward A. Freeman
DURHAM--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ELY--By James M. Hoppin
SALISBURY--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
EXETER--By Anna Bowman Dodd
LICHFIELD--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
WINCHESTER--By William Howitt
WELLS--By James M, Hoppin
BURY ST. EDMUNDS--By H. Claiborne Dixon
GLASTONBURY--By H. Claiborne Dixon
TINTERN--By H. Claiborne Dixon

III--CASTLES AND STATELY HOMES

LIVING IN GREAT HOUSES--By Richard Grant White
WINDSOR--By Harriet Beecher Stowe
BLENHEIM--By the Duke of Marlborough
WARWICK--By Harriet Beecher Stowe
KENILWORTH--By Sir Walter Scott
ALNWICK--By William Howitt
HAMPTON COURT--By William Howitt
CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALL--By Elihu Burritt
EATON HALL--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
HOLLAND HOUSE--By William Howitt
ARUNDEL--By Anna Bowman Dodd
PENSHURST--By William Howitt

IV--ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES

STRATFORD-ON-AVON--By Washington Irving
NEWSTEAD ABBEY--By Nathaniel Hawthorne
HUCKNALL-TORKARD CHURCH (Byron's Grave)--By William Winter
DR. JOHNSON'S BIRTHPLACE--By Nathaniel Hawthorne

_(English Literary Shrines continued in Vol. II)_

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

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