Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 - Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2

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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland, Part Two

Author: Francis W. Halsey

Release Date: December, 2005 [EBook #9503] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 6, 2003]

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SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS

Selected And Edited With Introduction, Etc.

By Francis W. Halsey

Editor of "Great Epochs in American History" Associate Editor of "The World's Famous Orations" and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc.

In Ten Volumes

Illustrated

Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland

Part Two

[Printed in the United States of America]

II

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—PART TWO

IV-ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES—

(Continued)

STOKE POGIS—By Charles T. Congdon

HAWORTH—By Theodore F. Wolfe

GAD'S HILL—By Theodore F. Wolfe

RYDAL MOUNT—By William Howitt

TWICKENHAM—By William Howitt

V-OTHER ENGLISH SCENES

STONEHENGE—By Ralph Waldo Emerson

MAGNA CHARTA ISLAND—By Mrs. S. C. Hall

THE HOME OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS—By James M. Hoppin

OXFORD—By Goldwin Smith

CAMBRIDGE—By James M. Hoppin

CHESTER—By Nathaniel Hawthorne

EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE—By Frederick A. Talbot

THE CAPITAL OF THE BRITISH, SAXON AND NORMAN KINGS—By William Howitt

VI—SCOTLAND

EDINBURGH—By Robert Louis Stevenson

HOLYROOD—By David Masson

LINLITHGOW—By Sir Walter Scott

STIRLING—By Nathaniel Hawthorne

ABBOTSFORD—By William Howitt

DRYBURGH ABBEY—By William Howitt

MELROSE ABBEY—By William Howitt

CARLYLE'S BIBTHPLACE AND EARLY HOMES— By John Burroughs

BURNS'S LAND—By Nathaniel Hawthorne

HIGHLAND MARY'S HOME AND GRAVE—By Theodore F. Wolfe

THROUGH THE CALEDONIA CANAL TO INVERNESS—By H. A. Taine

THE SCOTCH HIGHLANDS—By H. A. Taine

BEN LOMOND AND THE HIGHLAND LAKES—By Bayard Taylor

TO THE HEBRIDES—By James Boswell

STAFFA AND IONA—By William Howitt

VII—IRELAND

A SUMMER DAY IN DUBLIN—By William Makepeace Thackeray

DUBLIN CASTLE—By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDHAL—By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

LIMERICK—By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

FROM BELFAST TO DUBLIN—By William Cullen Bryant

THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY—ByBayard Taylor

THEGIANT'SCAUSEWAY—ByBayardTaylor

CORK—by William Makepeace Thackeray

BLARNEY CASTLE—By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

MUCROSS ABBEY—By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall

FROM GLENGARIFF TO KILLARNEY—By William Makepeace Thackeray

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME II

FRONTISPIECE

PRINCESS STREET AND SCOTT'S MONUMENT, EDINBURGH

STRATFORD-ON-AVON

INTERIOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, STRATFORD

ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE, NEAR STRATFORD

ROOM IN STRATFORD IN WHICH

SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN

NEWSTEAD ABBEY, BYRON'S ANCESTRAL HOME

STOKE POGIS, THE SCENE OF GRAY'S "ELEGY"

OXFORD

EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH, CANTERBURY

EDINBURGH CASTLE AND NATIONAL GALLERY

OLD GREYFRIAR'S CHURCH, EDINBURGH

HOLYROOD PALACE, EDINBURGH

STIRLING CASTLE

RUINS OF HOLYROOD ABBEY, EDINBURGH

MELROSE ABBEY

GLASTONBURY ABBEY

CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE, SCOTLAND

DUMBARTON ROCK AND CASTLE

LIMERICK CASTLE

ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN

THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY

BLARNEY CASTLE

MUCROSS ABBEY

THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY

SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN

THE GAP OF DUNLOE

IV

ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES

(Continued)

STOKE POGIS [Footnote: From "Reminiscences of a Journalist." By special arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin Co. Copyright, 1884. Mr. Congdon was, for many years, under Horace Greeley, a leading editorial writer for the New York "Tribune."]

BY CHARLES T. CONGDON

It was a comfort as I came out of the Albert Memorial Chapel, and rejoined nature upon the Terrace, to mutter to myself those fine lines which not a hundred years ago everybody knew by heart: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave,"—a verse which I found it not bad to remember as in the Chapel Royal I gazed upon the helmets, and banners, and insignia of many a