SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS

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—By Bayard Taylor

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