Portraits of Places (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883)

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Portraits of Places (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883)
by Henry James
1588082Portraits of Places (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883)Henry James (1843-1916)


PORTRAITS OF PLACES





PORTRAITS OF PLACES




BY

HENRY JAMES




London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1883



Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.



NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.


The papers contained in this volume were first published in various American magazines and journals; and it is especially true of several articles embodying impressions—it is to be feared very superficial—received during the early months of a residence in England, that they were at that time addressed altogether to an American public. It is probable that they can have but a limited interest for English readers, familiar, naturally, to satiety with many of those minor characteristics to which the author has ventured to call the attention of his less initiated countrymen. It may be added that such pages represent a stage of observation on the writer's part which belongs to freshness of acquaintance. His impressions have been modified and enlarged, and he would not to-day have the temerity to write letters upon England. The four last sketches, dealing with American scenes, were the earliest written, and their only merit at present is that of testimony to the past. A period of thirteen years in the United States produces extraordinary changes, and the places in question would have now to be described in very different terms.



CONTENTS.


PAGE
I. Venice 1
II. Italy Revisited 39
III. Occasional Paris 75
IV. Rheims and Laon: A Little Tour 96
V. Chartres 120
VI. Rouen 130
VII. Etretat 139
VIII. From Normandy to the Pyrenees 148
IX. An English Easter 181
X. London at Midsummer 210
XI. Two Excursions 228
XII. In Warwickshire 247
XIII. Abbeys and Castles 270
XIV. English Vignettes 287
XV. An English New Year 307
XVI. An English Winter Watering-Place 316
XVII. Saratoga 324
XVIII. Newport 338
XIX. Quebec 350
XX. Niagara 364


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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