CHAPTER XIII

THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND 187

INDEX 203

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. St. Paul's from the River Thames _Frontispiece_

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2. The Chalk Cliffs of England 1

3. North Side, Canterbury Cathedral 8

4. Richmond, Yorkshire 17

5. Norman Staircase, King's School, Canterbury 24

6. A Kent Manor-House and Garden 33

7. A Sussex Village 40

8. The Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College, Cambridge 49

9. St. Magdalen Tower and College, Oxford 56

10. Broad Street, Oxford, looking West 59

11. Eton Upper School 62

12. Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge, London 65

13. Harvesting in Herefordshire 72

14. Football at Rugby School 81

15. Cricket at "Lord's" 88

16. Trout-fishing on the Itchen, Hampshire 97

17. Dean's Yard, Westminster 104

18. Sailing Boats on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London 107

19. Watergate Street, Chester 110

20. The River Rother, Sussex 115

21. Thames at Richmond, Surrey 118

22. Spring by the Thames 121

23. Windsor Castle from Fellows' Eyot: Early Spring 124

24. Glastonbury Abbey, Somersetshire 128

25. Anne Hathaway's Cottage near Stratford-on-Avon 137

26. Gipsies on a Gloucestershire Common 144

27. The Tower from the Tower Bridge, looking West 153

28. Westminster Abbey from the end of the Embankment 160

29. Westminster and the Houses of Parliament 169

30. Hyde Park, London 176

31. Battleships Manoeuvring 193

32. Changing the Guard 200

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