hey stood under the clear heaven
glittering in the sun....

The hall, the chapel, the withdrawing-room, are all splendid specimens of
Gothic grandeur, and possess many historic associations. In the hall,
Surrey wrote on a pane of glass some of his verses to Geraldine; and
there, too, it is said, the play of Henry VIII., exhibiting the fall of
Wolsey in the very creation of his former glory, was once acted,
Shakespeare himself being one of the performers!

CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALL [Footnote: From "A Walk From London to John
O'Groats."]

BY ELIHU BURRITT

It was a pleasure quite equal to my anticipation to visit Chatsworth for
the first time, after a sojourn in England, off and on, for sixteen years.
It is the lion number three, according to the American ranking of the
historical edifices and localities of England. Stratford-upon-Avon,
Westminster Abbey and Chatsworth are the three representative celebrities
which our travelers think they must visit if they would see the life of
England's ages from the best standpoints. And this is the order in which
they rank them. Chatsworth and Haddon Hall should be seen the same day if
possible; so that you may carry the impression of the one fresh and active
into the other. They are the two most representative buildings in the
kingdom. Haddon is old English feudalism edificed. It represents the rough
grandeur, hospitality, wassail and rude romance of the English nobility
five hundred years ago. It was all in its glory about the time when
Thomas-a-Becket, the Magnificent, used to entertain great companies of
belted knights of the realm in a manner that exceeded regal munificence in
those days--even directing fresh straw to be laid for them on his ample
mansion floor, that they might not soil the bravery of their dresses when
they bunked down for the night. The building is brimful of the character
and history of that period. Indeed, there are no two milestones of English
history so near together, and yet measuring such a space of the nation's
life and mariners between them, as this hall and that of Chatsworth.

It was built, of course, in the bow and arrow times, when the sun had to
use the same missiles in shooting its barbed rays into the narrow
apertures of old castles--or the stone coffins of fear-hunted knights and
ladies, as they might be called. What a monument this to the dispositions
and habits of the world, outside and inside of that early time! Here is
the porte