hallowed by the spirit of her poetry, of which Shakespeare is the soul. Several months after the publication of _Shakespeare's England _the writer was told of a work, published many years ago, bearing a similar title, though relating to a different theme--the physical state of England in Shakespeare's time. He had never heard of it and has never seen it. The text for the present reprint has been carefully revised. To his British readers the author would say that it is neither from lack of sympathy with the happiness around him nor from lack of faith in the future of his country that his writings have drifted toward the pathos in human experience and toward the hallowing associations of an old historic land. Temperament is the explanation of style: and he has written thus of England because she has filled his mind with beauty and his heart with mingled joy and sadness: and surely some memory of her venerable ruins, her ancient shrines, her rustic glens, her gleaming rivers, and her flower-spangled meadows will mingle with the last thoughts that glimmer through his brain, when the shadows of the eternal night are falling and the ramble of life is done._ _W. W._ 1892. CONTENTS Preface To Illustrated Edition Old Preface CHAPTER I. The Voyage CHAPTER II. Beauty Of England CHAPTER III. Great Historic Places CHAPTER IV. Rambles In London CHAPTER V. A Visit To Windsor CHAPTER VI. The Palace Of Westminster. CHAPTER VII. Warwick And Kenilworth CHAPTER VIII. First View Of Stratford-Upon-Avon CHAPTER IX. London Nooks And Corners CHAPTER X. Relics Of Lord Byron CHAPTER XI. Westminster Abbey CHAPTER XII. Shakespeare's Home CHAPTER XIII. Up to London CHAPTER XIV. Old Churches of London CHAPTER XV. Literary Shrines of London CHAPTER XVI. A Haunt Of Edmund Kean CHAPTER XVII. Stoke-Pogis and Thomas Gray CHAPTER XVIII. At The Grave of Coleridge CHAPTER XIX. On Barnet Battle-field CHAPTER XX. A Glimpse Of Canterbury CHAPTER XXI. The Shrines Of Warwickshire CHAPTER XXII. A Borrower of The Night ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of William Winter--from a crayon by Arthur Jule Goodman The Anchor Inn Old House at Bridport Restoration House, Rochester Charing Cross Kensington Palace The Tower of London Old Water Gate Approach to Cheshire Cheese St. Mary-le-Strand Temple Church Gower's Monument Andrews's Monument Old Tabard Inn, Southwark Windsor Castle St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Windsor Forest and Park The Curfew Tower The Sign of the Swan Westminster Hall The Mace Greenwich Hospital Queen Elizabeth's Cradle Warwick Castle Old Inn