⁂ _The chapters on “London” and “Browning in Westminster Abbey” are reprinted by permission of Messrs. Harper and Brothers from Mr. James’s “Essays in London and Elsewhere.” The chapter on “Winchelsea, Rye, and ‘Denis Duval,’” originally appeared in “Scribner’s Magazine.”_ [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _A Tower on the Walls, Chester_ _Half-title_ _Magdalen Tower, Oxford_ (_see p. 189_) _Frontispiece_ _The Gate-House, Cambridge_ _Title_ _The Senate House, Oxford_ v _Peterhouse Quad, Cambridge_ vii _The Medway and Rochester Keep_ ix _Richmond, from the Thames_ 1 _St. Paul’s, from Ludgate Hill_ 6 _Entrance to St. James’s Park, Duke of York’s Column_ 16 _In the Green Park_ 22 _St. Paul’s, from the Water_ 40 _The Terrace, Richmond_ 42 _North Door of the Abbey_ 51 _The Abbey, from Victoria Street_ 54 _Eaton Hall_ 61 _Chester High Street_ 64 _The Rows, Chester_ 68 _Chester Cathedral, West Front_ 72 _Shrewsbury_ 76 _Haddon Hall_ 77 _Lichfield Cathedral_ 80 _The Three Spires of Lichfield_ 82 _Warwick Castle_ 88 _Haddon Hall, from the Road_ 91 _Lynmouth_ 93 _A Devonshire Lane_ 94 _The Norman Towers of Exeter_ 98 _Porlock Church, Exmoor_ 105 _The West Front, Wells_ 107 _The Market-Place, Wells_ 112 _Salisbury Cathedral_ 116 _Stonehenge_ 118 _Glastonbury_ 120 _The Abbey and Victoria Tower, from St. James’s Park_ 121 _Dark Mysterious London. Near Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster_ 126 _In St. James’s Park_ 130 _Baker Street_ 134 _Canterbury, from the Meadows_ 140 _Rochester Castle_ 144