To
MY COLLEAGUE IN PLEASANT LITERARY PATHS
and
MANY YEARS FRIEND
CHARLOTTE PORTER

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.English Poets, Friends, and Enthusiasms[1]
II.Shakespeare's Portrait[42]
III.A Crucial Period in English History[79]
IV.Social Aspects of English Life[211]
V.Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century[322]
VI.Art Criticism Inspired by the English Musician, Avison[420]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Browning at 23[Frontispiece]
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Percy Bysshe Shelley[4]
John Keats[10]
William Wordsworth[16]
Rydal Mount, the Home of Wordsworth[22]
An English Lane[33]
First Folio Portrait of Shakespeare[60]
Charles I in Scene of Impeachment[80]
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford[88]
Charles I[114]
Whitehall[120]
Westminster Hall[157]
The Tower, London[170]
The Tower, Traitors' Gate[183]
An English Manor House[222]
An English Park[240]
John Bunyan[274]
An English Inn[288]
Cardinal Wiseman[336]
Sacred Heart[342]
The Nativity[351]
The Transfiguration[366]
Handel[426]
Avison's March[446]

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CHAPTER I