English Hours (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1905)

by Henry James (1843-1916)

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Large Paper Edition

English Hours

By

Henry James

See p. 180

MAGDALEN TOWER, OXFORD

English Hours

By Henry James
With Illustrations by
Joseph Pennell

Cambridge
Printed at The Riverside Press
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COPYRIGHT 1875 1883 BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.

COPYRIGHT 1893 BY HARPER & BROTHERS

COPYRIGHT 1905 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published October 1905

Four Hundred Copies Printed
Number ............

NOTE

THE papers gathered into this series, originally published in various periodicals, have already been reprinted—the earliest in date more than thirty years ago; the others, with the exception of two, more recently, in a volume entitled "Portraits of Places." They have been here once more placed together, for the great advantage they will be felt to derive from the company and support of Mr. Pennell's illustrations. Each article is marked with its date, and it is obvious that the impressions and observations they for the most part embody had sprung from an early stage of acquaintance with their general subject-matter. They represent a good many wonderments and judgments and emotions, whether felicities or mistakes, the fine freshness of which the author has—to his misfortune, no doubt—sufficiently outlived. But they may perhaps on that very account present something of a curious interest. I may add that I have again attentively looked them over, with a view to any possible amendment of their form or enhancement of their meaning, and that I have nowhere scrupled to rewrite a sentence or a passage on judging it susceptible of a better turn.

1905.H. J.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THE chapters on "London" and "Browning in Westminster Abbey" are included in this volume by the courteous permission of Messrs. Harper & Brothers, publishers of the volume of Mr. James's "Portraits of Places" in which they originally appeared.

Acknowledgment is also due to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to reprint the chapter on "Winchelsea, Rye, and 'Denis Duval,'" which first appeared in "Scribner's Magazine."

CONTENTS

LONDON	I
BROWNING IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY	51
CHESTER	61
LICHFIELD AND WARWICK	77
NORTH DEVON	93
WELLS AND SALISBURY	107
AN ENGLISH EASTER	121
LONDON AT MIDSUMMER	153
TWO EXCURSIONS	175
IN WARWICKSHIRE	197
ABBEYS AND CASTLES	225
ENGLISH VIGNETTES	245
AN ENGLISH NEW YEAR	269
AN ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE	277
WINCHELSEA, RYE AND "DENIS DUVAL"	287
OLD SUFFOLK	317

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' 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
The Cathedral Close, Canterbury	148
The Nave, Canterbury	150
The Great Tower, Canterbury	152
Greenwich Observatory	153
Piccadilly, near Devonshire House	156
The Ship, Greenwich	162
Kensington Gardens	166
Greenwich Park	173
Epsom Heath, Derby Day	175
The Start for the Derby	180
The Finish of the Derby	184
On the Downs, Derby Day	196
Kenilworth	197
Stratford-on-Avon Church	208
Charlcote Park	214
The Hospital, Warwick	223
Ludlow Castle	225
Ludlow Castle, from the Moat	234
Stokesay Castle	240
Ludlow Tower	243
Portsmouth Harbor, and "The Victory"	245
Shanklin	254
Chichester Cross	260
Abbey Gateway, Bury St. Edmunds	264
Trinity Gate, Cambridge	267
The Workhouse	269
A Factory Town at Night	272
A Factory Town	275
The Parade, Hastings	277
The Front, Brighton	280
A Crescent, Hastings	286
Winchelsea High Street	287
Rye, from Winchelsea Gate	290
Rye, from the Winchelsea Road	296
Rye, from the Marshes	300
The Sandgate, Rye	308
A Street in Rye	315
FitzGerald's House	317
In Old Suffolk	326
A Suffolk Common	330

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