Shadows of the Stage Part 10

XIII. Will o' the Wisp: Love's Labour Lost.

XIV. Shakespeare's Shrew.

XV. A Mad World: Anthony and Cleopatra.

XVI. Sheridan, and the School for Scandal.

XVII. Farquhar, and the Inconstant.

XVIII. Longfellow.

XIX. A Thought on Cooper's Novels.

XX. A Man of Letters: John R.G. Ha.s.sard.

"Whatever William Winter writes is marked by felicity of diction and by refinement of style, as well as by the evidence of culture and wide reading. 'Old Shrines and Ivy' is an excellent example of the charm of his work."--_Boston Courier_.

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"... It was the author's wish, in dwelling thus upon the rural loveliness, and the literary and historical a.s.sociations of that delightful realm, to afford sympathetic guidance and useful suggestion to other American travellers who, like himself, might be attracted to roam among the shrines of the mother-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."--_From the Preface_.

"He offers something more than guidance to the American traveller. He is a convincing and eloquent interpreter of the august memories and venerable sanct.i.ties of the old country."--_Sat.u.r.day Review_.

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"Enthusiastic and yet keenly critical notes and comments on English life and scenery."--_Scotsman_.

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GRAY DAYS AND GOLD.

CONTENTS.

Cla.s.sic Shrines.

Haunted Glens and Houses.

Old York.

The Haunts of Moore.

Beautiful Bath.

The Lakes and Fells of Wordsworth.

Shakespeare Relics at Worcester.

Byron and Hucknall Torkard.

Historic Nooks and Corners.

Shakespeare's Town.

Up and Down the Avon.

Rambles in Arden.

The Stratford Fountain.

Bosworth Field.

The Home of Dr. Johnson.

From London to Edinburgh.

Into the Highlands.

Highland Beauties.

The Heart of Scotland.

Sir Walter Scott.

Elegiac Memorials.

Scottish Pictures.

Imperial Ruins.

The Land of Marmion.

At Vesper Time.

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PRESS NOTICES.

"Mr. Winter's graceful and meditative style in his English sketches has recommended his earlier volume upon (Shakespeare's) England to many readers, who will not need urging to make the acquaintance of this companion book, in which the traveller guides us through the quiet and romantic scenery of the mother-country with a mingled affection and sentiment of which we have had no example since Irving's day."--_The Nation_.

"As friendly and good-humoured a book on English scenes as any American has written since Was.h.i.+ngton Irving."--_Daily News_, _London_.

"Much that is bright and best in our literature is brought once more to our dulled memories. Indeed, we know of but few volumes containing so much of observation, kindly comment, philosophy, and artistic weight as this unpretentious little book."--_Chicago Herald_.