Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. ENGLISH HOURS BY HENRY JAMES [Illustration] [Illustration: MAGDALEN TOWER, OXFORD _See p. 189_] ENGLISH HOURS BY HENRY JAMES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH PENNELL [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge COPYRIGHT 1875 1883 BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. COPYRIGHT 1893 BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT 1905 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published October 1905_ [Illustration] NOTE The papers gathered into this series, originally published in various periodicals, have already been reprinted—the earliest in date more than thirty years ago; the others, with the exception of two, more recently, in a volume entitled “Portraits of Places.” They have been here once more placed together, for the great advantage they will be felt to derive from the company and support of Mr. Pennell’s illustrations. Each article is marked with its date, and it is obvious that the impressions and observations they for the most part embody had sprung from an early stage of acquaintance with their general subject-matter. They represent a good many wonderments and judgments and emotions, whether felicities or mistakes, the fine freshness of which the author has—to his misfortune, no doubt—sufficiently outlived. But they may perhaps on that very account present something of a curious interest. I may add that I have again attentively looked them over, with a view to any possible amendment of their form or enhancement of their meaning, and that I have nowhere scrupled to rewrite a sentence or a passage on judging it susceptible of a better turn. 1905. H. J. [Illustration] CONTENTS LONDON 1 BROWNING IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY 51 CHESTER 61 LICHFIELD AND WARWICK 77 NORTH DEVON 93 WELLS AND SALISBURY 107 AN ENGLISH EASTER 121 LONDON AT MIDSUMMER 153 TWO EXCURSIONS 175 IN WARWICKSHIRE 197 ABBEYS AND CASTLES 225 ENGLISH VIGNETTES 245 AN ENGLISH NEW YEAR 269 AN ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE 277 WINCHELSEA, RYE AND “DENIS DUVAL” 287 OLD SUFFOLK 317