[Illustration: THE CURFEW TOWER] WINDSOR CASTLE Described by EDWARD THOMAS Pictured by E. W. HASLEHUST [Illustration] BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY _Blackie & Son's "Beautiful" Series_ Beautiful England OXFORD THE ENGLISH LAKES CANTERBURY SHAKESPEARE-LAND THE THAMES WINDSOR CASTLE CAMBRIDGE NORWICH AND THE BROADS THE HEART OF WESSEX THE PEAK DISTRICT THE CORNISH RIVIERA DICKENS-LAND WINCHESTER THE ISLE OF WIGHT CHESTER YORK THE NEW FOREST HAMPTON COURT EXETER HEREFORD DARTMOOR THE DUKERIES WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON BATH AND WELLS RIPON AND HARROGATE SCARBOROUGH BOURNEMOUTH, POOLE, AND CHRISTCHURCH SWANAGE AND DISTRICT. Beautiful Ireland LEINSTER ULSTER MUNSTER CONNAUGHT Beautiful Switzerland LUCERNE CHAMONIX LAUSANNE VILLARS, CHAMPERY, ETC. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page The Curfew Tower _Frontispiece_ Windsor Castle from Fellows' Eyot, Eton 8 The Lower Ward, Windsor Castle 12 The Horse-Shoe Cloisters and St. George's Chapel 16 The Hundred Steps 22 The Norman Gate 26 The Canons' Cloisters 30 Anne Boleyn's Window, Dean's Cloisters 36 North Terrace and Winchester Tower 40 Nell Gwyn's House and Henry VIII Gateway 44 Eton College from Windsor 48 Virginia Water 52 [Illustration: WINDSOR CASTLE] THE NEIGHBOURHOOD