E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38890-h.htm or 38890-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38890/pg38890-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38890/38890-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/literarypilgrima00wolfrich Transcriber's note: Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE SEVENTH EDITION * * * * * * _BY DR. WOLFE_ Uniform with this volume LITERARY SHRINES THE HAUNTS OF SOME FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS _Treating descriptively and reminiscently of the scenes amid which Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, and many other American authors lived and wrote_ 223 pages. Illustrated with four photogravures. $1.25 A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE AND LITERARY SHRINES Two volumes in a box, $2.50 * * * * * * [Illustration: CASTLE OF CHILLON] A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE AMONG THE HAUNTS OF FAMOUS BRITISH AUTHORS by THEODORE F. WOLFE M.D. PH.D. Author of Literary Shrines etc. J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia MDCCCXCVI Copyright, 1895, By Theodore F. Wolfe. Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. PREFACE The favor with which a few articles in the periodical press, similar to those herewith presented, have been received induces the hope that the present volume may prove acceptable. If some popular literary shrines which are inevitably included in the writer's personal itinerary are herein accorded but scant notice, it is for the reason that they have been already so oft described that portrayal of them is therefore purposely omitted from this account of a literary pilgrimage: even Stratford-on-Avon here for once escapes description. However, the initial paragraphs of these chapters lightly outline a series of literary rambles which the writer has found measurably complete and consecutive. The pilgrim is understood to make his start from London. If these notes of his sojourns in the scenes hallowed by the presence of British authors or embalmed in their books shall prove pleasantly reminiscent to some who have fared to the same shrines, or helpfully suggestive to others who contemplate such pilgrimage, then "not in vain He wore his sandal shoon and scallop-shell." The writer is indebted to the publishers of the _Home Journal_ for permission to reproduce one or two articles which have appeared in that periodical. T. F. W. CONTENTS PAGE