LETTER XL. Killough Hill. The fairy garden. Romantic sentry-box. Return to Dublin. Madame de Sevigne. Lord Byron's tempest. Dinner with the Lord Lieutenant. The Marquis of Anglesea. Catholic worship. Invisible music. St. Christopher. Comparison of the Catholic and Protestant divine service. Allegory. Journal of a London life. Difference between English and German modes of thinking. Remarks on English Women. Malahide. Furniture seven hundred years old. Duchess of Portsmouth. Charles the First at the court of Spain. Howth Castle. Ducrow's living statues......420 LETTER XLI. Evening at Lady M----'s. Her nieces. Curious conversation. More theology. The nightingales. All the _corn_ of Europe. National scene. Domestic pictures. The authoress's boudoir. The miniature Napoleon. The Catholic Association. Shiel, Lawless, and others. Artificial resolution. Ride in the mountains. Sentimentality of a dandy......427 LETTER XLII. B---- H---- on modern piety. O'Connell in a long-tailed wig. The Don Quixote and the Dandy of the Association. Acting charades at Lady M----'s. 'Love me love my dog.' Miss O'Neil. Her acting......436 LETTER XLIII. Dead-letter office. £3000 incognito. The doctor. New surgical instrument. The bank. Bank-note metal. Gymnastics. Parlour philosophy. Paradoxes......441 LETTER XLIV. Favour of Neptune. The dream. Voyage across the channel. The young heir. Night in the mail. Shrewsbury. The tread-mill. Yellow criminals. Church. Curious old houses. Street curiosity. The little scholar. Ross. The river Wye. Goderich Castle. Varied prospects. Three counties at once. Childhood of Henry the Fifth. Grotesque rocks. Unfortunate tourist. The Druid's Head. Monmouth. Birth-place of Henry the Fifth. A poultry-yard. The bookseller and his family. Theft. Kind, simple-hearted people. Tintern abbey. The ivy avenue. The Wind Cliff. Sublime view. Chepstow Castle. Cromwell and Henry the Eighth improvers of the picturesque. Discovery. Penitence......451 LETTER XLV. Chepstow. Marten the Regicide. The girl's explanation. Taxes imposed by English lords and gentlemen on travellers. The possessor of Piercefield. Crossing the Bristol Channel. Men and horses pèle mèle. Recapitulation. Natural pictures. The most beautiful building. Bristol. The feudal churches. Disinterested piety of English clergymen. The mayor's equipage. Cook's Folly. Lord de Clifford's park. Russian fleet. The model of a village. Clifton. The black and white house. Sensibility of surgeons. Bath. The king of Bath. The Abbey church. Singular decoration. King James the Second's heroic feat. The eccentric Beckford. The tower. Strange _cortege_. The visit over the wall. Gothic architecture. Christmas-eve market. Walks by day and night. The conflagration......460 LETTER XLVI.