LETTER X.

Hawkestone Park. Uncommonly beautiful scenery. The red castle and New

Zealander's hut. More manufactories. Dangerous employment. The room in

which Shakspeare was born. His grave. Various parks. The Judith of

Cigoli. Blenheim. Vandalism. Pictures. Oxford. Its Gothic aspect. The

Sovereigns as Doctors. The Museum. Tradescant and his bird Dodo. The

blue dung-beetle in the character of a knight. Elizabeth's riding

gaiters, and her lover's locks of hair. The library. Manuscripts. Stowe.

Overloading. Louis the Eighteenth's lime trees. Valuables behind a

grating. Decoration for Don Juan. Portrait of Shakspeare. Ninon de

l'Enclos. Balustrade. Christmas pantomimes......81

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