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Evans, Herbert Arthur.<br />

Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.<br />

1905 914.2 E94<br />

But one chapter is devoted to Oxford itself. Yarnton, Woodstock, Banbury,<br />

Copredy. Edgehill, Compton-Wynyates, Stow-on-the-Wold,<br />

Chipping Campden, Broadway, Sherborne, Bibury, Painswick and<br />

Great Tew are a few of the best known out of many places visited.<br />

Illustrated by Frederick L. Griggs.<br />

[Grant, James.]<br />

The great metropolis [London]. 2v. 1837 ^14.21 G78<br />

v.i. General characteristics.—The theatres.—The clubs.—The gaming<br />

houses.—Metropolitan society: the higher classes; the middle classes;<br />

the lower classes.<br />

V.2. The newspaper press: morning papers; the evening papers; weekly<br />

papers; general remarks; parliamentary reporting.—Periodical literature:<br />

the quarterly reviews; the monthlies; weekly journals.<br />

Travels in town [London]. 2v. 1839 914.21 G78<br />

v.i. The streets.—The park.—Tattersall's and the turf.—Downing<br />

street.—The British Museum.—The newsmen.<br />

v.2. The post office.—Bookselling, Paternoster Row.—Religious denominations.<br />

Howitt, William.<br />

Rural and domestic life of Germany; with characteristic<br />

sketches of its cities and scenery. 1842<br />

914-3 H86<br />

At the time it appeared the book was generally regarded as an accurate<br />

and impartial account.<br />

James, Henry, b. 1843.<br />

English hours. 1905 914.2 J16<br />

Contents: London.—drowning in Westminster abbey.—Chester.—Lichfield<br />

and Warwick.—-North Devon.—Wells and Salisbury.—An English<br />

Easter.—London at midsummer.—Two excursions.—In Warwickshire.—Abbeys<br />

and castles.—English vignettes.—An English New<br />

Year. — An English winter watering-place. — Winch'elsea, Rye and<br />

"Denis Duval."—Old Suffolk.<br />

Sixteen essays on English scenes and occupations. They have all appeared<br />

before, in "Portraits of places," "Transatlantic sketches" and<br />

other collections. Mr James here gives us under one cover all that<br />

he has had to say about England from time to time from the early<br />

seventies down to the opening of this century. The illustrations<br />

by Joseph Pennell are of great merit and interest. Condensed from<br />

Nation, 1905.<br />

Jungman, Beatrix.<br />

Norway, by Nico Jungman, text by Beatrix Jungman.<br />

[1905] 914.81 J52<br />

Contents: Precarious travel.—Brottem, Aune, Sliper, Gjora, Sundalsoren.—On<br />

the fjords.—Minor romantic episodes.—Mainly about<br />

saints.—Arts and crafts.—Farm-houses, wedding festivities.—Forestry,<br />

reindeer, land tenures.—Fisheries, the Lapps, religion and morals,<br />

music.—Legends and literature.<br />

Illustrated in color.<br />

Kean, Martha, (pseud, of John M. Gundry).<br />

Transplanted nursery; being the simple chronicle of a<br />

summer sojourn in Brittany, told in letters home.<br />

1904 9M4 Kl 4<br />

Pleasantly written account of a summer spent in Brittany by a mother<br />

and her three small boys. The account is given in letters home, full<br />

of personal news with occasional guide-book touches.<br />

Lee, Edwin.<br />

Continental travel; with an appendix on the influence of<br />

climate, the remedial advantages of travelling, &c.<br />

1848 9H L52<br />

38l

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