STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.


PREFACE.

I have to thank the Editors of Macmillan's Magazine and the Saturday Review for allowing me to reprint most of the papers in this series. In many cases however I have greatly changed their original form. A few pages will be found to repeat what I have already said in my 'Short History.'


CONTENTS

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[A Brother of the Poor.]1
Sketches in Sunshine:—
I.[Cannes and St. Honorat]31
II.[Carnival on the Cornice]44
III.[Two Pirate Towns of the Riviera]59
IV.[The Winter Retreat]71
V.[San Remo]79
[The Poetry of Wealth]93
[Lambeth and the Archbishops]107
[Children by the Sea]167
[The Florence of Dante]181
[Buttercups]198
[Abbot and Town]211
[Hotels in the Clouds]241
[AEneas: A Vergilian Study]257
Two Venetian Studies:—
I.[Venice and Rome]289
II.[Venice and Tintoretto]300
[The District Visitor]313
[The Early History of Oxford]329
[The Home of Our Angevin Kings]359
[Capri]383
[Capri and its Roman Remains]395
[The Feast of the Coral-Fishers]414