Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Emily Ratliff and PG Distributed Proofreaders SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS Selected And Edited With Introduction, Etc. By Francis W. Halsey _Editor of "Great Epochs in American History" Associate Editor of "The World's Famous Orations" and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc._ In Ten Volumes Illustrated Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland Part Two [_Printed in the United States of America_] II CONTENTS OF VOLUME II GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--PART TWO IV-ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES-- (_Continued_) STOKE POGIS--By Charles T. Congdon HAWORTH--By Theodore F. Wolfe GAD'S HILL--By Theodore F. Wolfe RYDAL MOUNT--By William Howitt TWICKENHAM--By William Howitt V-OTHER ENGLISH SCENES STONEHENGE--By Ralph Waldo Emerson MAGNA CHARTA ISLAND--By Mrs. S. C. Hall THE HOME OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS--By James M. Hoppin OXFORD--By Goldwin Smith CAMBRIDGE--By James M. Hoppin CHESTER--By Nathaniel Hawthorne EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE--By Frederick A. Talbot THE CAPITAL OF THE BRITISH, SAXON AND NORMAN KINGS--By William Howitt VI--SCOTLAND EDINBURGH--By Robert Louis Stevenson HOLYROOD--By David Masson LINLITHGOW--By Sir Walter Scott STIRLING--By Nathaniel Hawthorne ABBOTSFORD--By William Howitt DRYBURGH ABBEY--By William Howitt MELROSE ABBEY--By William Howitt CARLYLE'S BIBTHPLACE AND EARLY HOMES--By John Burroughs BURNS'S LAND--By Nathaniel Hawthorne HIGHLAND MARY'S HOME AND GRAVE--By Theodore F. Wolfe THROUGH THE CALEDONIA CANAL TO INVERNESS--By H. A. Taine THE SCOTCH HIGHLANDS--By H. A. Taine BEN LOMOND AND THE HIGHLAND LAKES--By Bayard Taylor TO THE HEBRIDES--By James Boswell STAFFA AND IONA--By William Howitt VII--IRELAND A SUMMER DAY IN DUBLIN--By William Makepeace Thackeray DUBLIN CASTLE--By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDHAL--By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall LIMERICK--By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall FROM BELFAST TO DUBLIN--By William Cullen Bryant THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY--By Bayard Taylor CORK--by William Makepeace Thackeray BLARNEY CASTLE--By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall MUCROSS ABBEY--By Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall FROM GLENGARIFF TO KILLARNEY--By William Makepeace Thackeray LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME II FRONTISPIECE PRINCESS STREET AND SCOTT'S MONUMENT, EDINBURGH STRATFORD-ON-AVON INTERIOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, STRATFORD ANNE HATHAWAY'S COTTAGE, NEAR STRATFORD ROOM IN STRATFORD IN WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS BORN NEWSTEAD ABBEY, BYRON'S ANCESTRAL HOME STOKE POGIS, THE SCENE OF GRAY'S "ELEGY" OXFORD EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH, CANTERBURY EDINBURGH CASTLE AND NATIONAL GALLERY OLD GREYFRIAR'S CHURCH, EDINBURGH HOLYROOD PALACE, EDINBURGH STIRLING CASTLE RUINS OF HOLYROOD ABBEY, EDINBURGH MELROSE ABBEY GLASTONBURY ABBEY CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE, SCOTLAND DUMBARTON ROCK AND CASTLE LIMERICK CASTLE ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY BLARNEY CASTLE MUCROSS ABBEY THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY