So You're Going to England!Houghton Mifflin, 1926 - 571 pages |
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... Museum . Reproduced from a color print in Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower's The Tower of London 254 THE CHAPEL OF THE CHARTERHOUSE 296 From a painting by Hubert von Herkomer SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL , WITH LORD MAYOR'S SHOW ON THE WATER 304 ...
... Museum . Reproduced from a color print in Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower's The Tower of London 254 THE CHAPEL OF THE CHARTERHOUSE 296 From a painting by Hubert von Herkomer SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL , WITH LORD MAYOR'S SHOW ON THE WATER 304 ...
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... Museum ; and thence back to High Street . Saint Michael's was built in 1100 , by monks from Nor- mandy ; and although it has been barbarously restored , it still has some details of interest for the student of architec- ture . Tudor ...
... Museum ; and thence back to High Street . Saint Michael's was built in 1100 , by monks from Nor- mandy ; and although it has been barbarously restored , it still has some details of interest for the student of architec- ture . Tudor ...
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... museum of antiquities , and well worthy of a visit for itself , even more than for its exhibits . For some of us this house is haunted by another ghost than that of Blue- beard Henry , or his Bluebeard son - in - law ; and it was an ...
... museum of antiquities , and well worthy of a visit for itself , even more than for its exhibits . For some of us this house is haunted by another ghost than that of Blue- beard Henry , or his Bluebeard son - in - law ; and it was an ...
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... Museum , in the little house where he was born ; Commercial Road , on which it is situated ( Num- ber 393 ) leads into town from Cosham on the east - and - west highway ( and before you got to Cosham you passed the picturesque ruin of ...
... Museum , in the little house where he was born ; Commercial Road , on which it is situated ( Num- ber 393 ) leads into town from Cosham on the east - and - west highway ( and before you got to Cosham you passed the picturesque ruin of ...
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... museum of great interest to lovers of American history . If you come down here , you will ( of course ) lunch at Wey- mouth , and may not get up to Dorchester ( seven miles from Weymouth ) until mid - afternoon . Lovely old Dorchester ...
... museum of great interest to lovers of American history . If you come down here , you will ( of course ) lunch at Wey- mouth , and may not get up to Dorchester ( seven miles from Weymouth ) until mid - afternoon . Lovely old Dorchester ...
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