London Bridge. The Ancient Church of St. Magnus. The East India House of Charles Lamb's Time. Church of the Dutch Refugees. Bow-bells (st. Mary-le-bow, Cheapside). Staple Inn, Holborn. Clifford's Inn Hall. Ancient Church of St. Martins-in-the-fields. Hyde Park in October. Thames Embankment. SUBURBAN SKETCHES By William Dean Howells Author Of “Venetian Life,” “Italian Journeys” Etc. CONTENTS MRS. JOHNSON DOORSTEP ACQUAINTANCE A PEDESTRIAN TOUR. BY HORSE-CAR TO BOSTON A DAY'S PLEASURE A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE SCENE JUBILEE DAYS SOME LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MORALS. FLITTING Illustrations “But I Suppose This Wine is Not Made of Grapes, Signor?” “Looking About, I Saw Two Women.” “The Young Lady in Black, Who Alighted at a Most Ordinary Little Street.” “That Sweet Young Blonde, Who Arrives by Most Trains.” “Frank and Lucy Stalked Ahead, With Shawls Dragging From Their Arms.” “They Skirmish About Him With Every Sort of Query.” “A Gaunt Figure of Forlorn and Curious Smartness.” “The Spectacle As We Beheld It.” “Vacant and Ceremonious Zeal.” SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES By W. D. Howells CONTENTS A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL SOME MERITS OF MANCHESTER IN SMOKIEST SHEFFIELD NINE DAYS’ WONDER IN YORK TWO YORKISH EPISODES A DAY AT DONCASTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DURHAM THE MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENS ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH WATERING-PLACE LLANDUDNO, ANOTHER WELSH WATERING-PLACE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH CHARACTER THE LEATHERWOOD GOD By William Dean Howells CONTENTS PUBLISHER'S NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE LEATHERWOOD GOD I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII List of Illustrations Nancy Stood Staring at Her, With Words Beyond Saying In Her Heart—words That Rose in Her Throat and Choked Her “You Believe, Maybe, That You Would Be Struck Dead if You Said the Things That I Do; But Why Ain't I Struck Dead?” “It's my Cloth! I Spun It, I Wove It, Every Thread! It's All We've Got for Our Clothes This Winter!” “Now You Can See How It Feels to Have Your Own Husband Slap You.” She Had Begun to Wash his Wound, Very Gently, Though She Spoke So Roughly, While he Murmured With the Pain and With The Comfort Of The Pain They Swarmed Forward to the Altar-place and Flung Themselves on the Ground, and Heaped The Pulpit-steps With Their Bodies “And he Went Down Ag'in, and when He Come up Ag'in, His Face Was All Soakin' Wet, Like He'd Been Crying Under the Water” THE ALBANY DEPOT A FARCE By W. D. Howells (THE ACTION PASSES IN BOSTON) I. MR. AND MRS. EDWARD ROBERTS; THE CHOREWOMAN II. ROBERTS AND WILLIS CAMPBELL III. THE McILHENYS, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL IV. ROBERTS AND CAMPBELL V. MRS. ROBERTS, MRS. CAMPBELL, ROBERTS, AND CAMPBELL; THEN THE COOK AND McILHENY THE MINISTER'S CHARGE OR, THE APPRENTICESHIP OF LEMUEL BARKER By William Dean Howells CONTENTS THE MINISTER'S CHARGE; I. II. III. IV. V. VI.