They suddenly saw the tremendous cathedral looming
up before them.—Page [70].

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.First Impressions[9]
II.The First Evening[15]
III.Westminster Abbey[20]
IV.Penshurst Place: the Home of Sir Philip Sidney[37]
V.The Tower of London[50]
VI.St. Paul’s Cathedral and Its Vicinity[65]
VII.A Sunday Night Chat[83]
VIII.Windsor Castle, Stoke Poges, and Eton School[94]
IX.More About London[107]
X.Richmond and Hampton Court Palace[122]
XI.Stratford-on-Avon[138]
XII.A Day in Warwickshire[161]
XIII.Warwick and Kenilworth Castles[181]
XIV.Sherwood Forest and Haddon Hall[203]
XV.Winchester, Salisbury, and Stonehenge[222]
XVI.Clovelly[238]
XVII.Rochester and Canterbury[251]
XVIII.Good-by To London[273]
Index[289]

ILLUSTRATIONS

They suddenly saw the tremendous cathedral looming up before them (Page 70)[Frontispiece]
FACING
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“Oh, what’s this place? I am sure I have seen pictures of it!”[12]
“Do you remember those quaint little verses about ‘Bow Bells’?”[16]
“I only wish i could be a Guard and ride a horse like one of those!”[20]
“There’s the Abbey right ahead of us”[26]
“What’s the use of having so many doors?”[40]
“This seems to speak of peace, happiness, and
safety”		[44]
“I want to see who those fellows in the funny red uniforms are”[50]
“The king cannot proceed into the ‘City’ without being first received at Temple Bar by the Lord Mayor”[68]
“I’d feel like ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ going around with those clothes on!”[84]
“You remember, don’t you, having the guide point out London Bridge?”[88]
The moss-grown Saxon porch[96]
John Milton lived there after he fled from London[106]
“Oh, here’s the old Coronation Chair, isn’t it?”[114]
“Every time I visit this palace I marvel at the amount of history with which it is connected”[136]
“Why, I didn’t suppose it was as big as that!”[140]
“Did Anne truly live here?”[164]
“They know how important they are, and that this garden wouldn’t be complete without them”[184]
“It still seems alive with memories of the fair Dorothy Vernon”[218]
“There still remains the question of how these tremendous stones were brought here”[236]
One of plaster and thatch, overgrown with roses[240]
“You’ll find nothing at all like this strange little Clovelly”[250]
“William of Sens, in 1184, finished the building which we now see”[264]
Old gentlemen, stout ladies, young people, and small children, all ride in England[286]

JOHN AND BETTY’S HISTORY VISIT