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CONTENTS.
VII
CHAPTER XVII.
A Day in the Crystal Palace—Thomas Carlyle 193
CHAPTER XVIII.
The London Peace Congress—Meeting of Fugitive Slaves—Temperance Demonstration—The Great Exhibition: Last Visit 202
CHAPTER XIX.
Oxford—Martyrs' Monument—Cost of the Burning of the Martyrs—The Colleges—Dr. Pusey—Energy the Secret of Success 208
CHAPTER XX.
Fugitive Slaves in England—Great Meeting in Hall of Commerce, London 215
CHAPTER XXI.
Visit to Stratford upon Avon—Shakspeare's Birth-place—His Grave—George Dawson, Esq. 223
CHAPTER XXII.
Visit to Ludlow—The Wet Sheets—Landlady in a Fix—Ludlow Castle—Milton's Comus—Butler's Hudibras—Visit to Hereford—Birth-places of Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Nell Gwynne 230
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Fashionable Dinner Party—Cowley, the Poet—Residence of Alexander Pope—His Merits as a Poet 240
CHAPTER XXIV.
Birth-place of Robert Burns—His Monument—Tain O'Shanter and Souter Johnny—The Shell Palace—Newark Castle—Highland Mary 247
CHAPTER XXV.
The Thames Tunnel—Colosseum—Swiss Cottage—Its Mysteries and its Beauties 254
CHAPTER XXVI.
Visit to a Burial-ground—Epitaph on the Grave of a Wife—A Warning to the Fair Sex 259
CHAPTER XXVII.
Scotland—Aberdeen—Passage by Water—Edinburgh—George Combe 262