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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XVII. | |
A Day in the Crystal Palace—Thomas Carlyle | 193 |
CHAPTER XVIII. | |
The London Peace Congress—Meeting of Fugitive Slaves—Temperance Demonstration—The Great Exhibition: Last Visit | 202 |
CHAPTER XIX. | |
Oxford—Martyrs' Monument—Cost of the Burning of the Martyrs—The Colleges—Dr. Pusey—Energy the Secret of Success | 208 |
CHAPTER XX. | |
Fugitive Slaves in England—Great Meeting in Hall of Commerce, London | 215 |
CHAPTER XXI. | |
Visit to Stratford upon Avon—Shakspeare's Birth-place—His Grave—George Dawson, Esq. | 223 |
CHAPTER XXII. | |
Visit to Ludlow—The Wet Sheets—Landlady in a Fix—Ludlow Castle—Milton's Comus—Butler's Hudibras—Visit to Hereford—Birth-places of Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Nell Gwynne | 230 |
CHAPTER XXIII. | |
A Fashionable Dinner Party—Cowley, the Poet—Residence of Alexander Pope—His Merits as a Poet | 240 |
CHAPTER XXIV. | |
Birth-place of Robert Burns—His Monument—Tain O'Shanter and Souter Johnny—The Shell Palace—Newark Castle—Highland Mary | 247 |
CHAPTER XXV. | |
The Thames Tunnel—Colosseum—Swiss Cottage—Its Mysteries and its Beauties | 254 |
CHAPTER XXVI. | |
Visit to a Burial-ground—Epitaph on the Grave of a Wife—A Warning to the Fair Sex | 259 |
CHAPTER XXVII. | |
Scotland—Aberdeen—Passage by Water—Edinburgh—George Combe | 262 |