short table of contents, as well as occasional notes, ad modum Minellii; for which we beg pardon and indulgence.
B——, October 30, 1829.
CONTENTS.
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Departure. Madame de Sevigne. Dresden. Homœopathic disposition. The art of
travelling comfortably. Reminiscences of youth. Weimar. Grand Duke’s library.
The Court. The park. Dinner at Court. Duke Bernhard. Anecdote. Visit to
Göthe. A day in the Belvedere. Late Queen of Wurtemberg. Granby. English
abroad and at home.
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| LETTER II. |
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Gotha. Old friends. Eisenach. The wedding. Hasty flights. The banks of the
Ruhr. Wesel. Fatherlandish sandbanks. Beautiful gardens of Holland. Foreign
air of the country. Culture. Utrecht. The cathedral at Gouda. Houses built
aslant. Fantastic windmills. Rotterdam. The civil banker. Pasteboard roofs.
The golden gondola. Ætna. The lovely girl. L’adieu de Voltaire.
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| LETTER III. |
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The passage. The planter. The English custom-house. The lost purse. Macadamized
roads. Improvements of London. Specimens of bad taste. National
taste. The Regent’s Park. Waterloo bridge. London Hotels. The bazaars.
Walks in the streets. Shops. Dinner at the —— Ambassador’s. Johannisberg.
Chiswick. Decline of taste in the science of gardening. Favourable climate. The
menagerie. Life in the City. The universal genius. The exchange and Bank.
The gold cellar. Court of justice of the Lord Mayor. Garroway’s Coffee-house.
Rothschild. Nero. Exeter ‘Change. Wurtemberg diplomacy. Theatre in the
Strand. The ingenious man. Too much for money. Hampton Court. Dangerous
fumigation.
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| LETTER IV. |
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Climate. British Museum. Its guards. Strange Mischmasch. Journey to Newmarket.
English scenery. Life there. The races. The betting-post. Visit in the
country. English hospitality. The Dandy. Englishmen on the continent. National
customs. Order of dinner. Hot-houses. Audley end. The Aviary. Short
Grove. Sale of Land in England.
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| LETTER V. |
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Advice to travellers. Clubs. Virtue and Umbrellas. Arrangement of Maps. English
wine. How an Englishman sits. Comfortable customs. Rules of behaviour.
Treatment of Servants. The higher classes. Rules of play. Pious wishes for
Germany. Good-breeding of a Viscount. The actor Liston. Madame Vestris.
‘Manger et digerer.’ Sentimental effusion. Inconvenient Newspapers. Drury-lane.
Braham the everlasting Jew. Miss Paton. Vulgarity of the theatre. Coarseness
of an English audience.
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| LETTER VI. |
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Barrel organs. Punch. His biography. Ruined Houses. The King in Parliament.
Contrast. George the Fourth. The Opera. Figaro without Singers. English
melodies. Charles Kemble. Costume of old times. Prince E——. A diplomatic
‘bon mot.’ Sir L—— M——. Practical Philosophy. Falstaff as he is and as he
should be. The King in Hamlet. The intelligent actor from Newfoundland. Little
circle in the great world. How the day passes here. Learning languages. The
author of Anastasius. His antique furniture. Oberon. The chorus of rocks.
Presentation to the King. Incidents at the levee. Dinner with Mr. R——. Real
piety. His fashionable friends. State carriage of the King of the Birmans. Mathews
at home.
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The auctioneer. The Napoleonist. French theatre. A rout. Lady Charlotte B——.
Politics and conversation. English Aristocracy. The foggy sun of England. Extraordinary
testamentary dispositions. Modern knights of St. John. Sion House.
Richmond. Adelphi. Admirable drunkard. Alexander Von Humboldt. King of
Prussia. The Diorama.
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| LETTER VIII. |
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Journey of business. Gothic and Italian villa. Stanmore Priory. English country
inns. Breakfast. Cashiobury Park. Tasteful magnificence. Drawings by Denon.
Flower-Gardens. Ashridge. Modern Gothic. Woburn Abbey.
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Warwick Castle. Feudal Grandeur. The baronial hall. Portraits. Joan of Arragon.
Machiavelli. Leamington. Guy’s Cliff. His cave. Gaveston’s cross. Tombs of
Warwick and Leicester. The ruins of Kenilworth. Elizabeth’s balcony. The past.
Birmingham. Mr. Thomasson’s manufactory. Aston Hall. Cromwell. Chester.
The town prison. The rogue’s fête.
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