Category: Travel Writing
_The_ Island, as its people are in the way of styling it, while not going so far as to deny existence to the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland--the Wight, as it is sometimes called by old writers--has for the first fact in its history that it was not always an isla...
As to the best time for a visit, that depends partly on which aspect of the Island is to be sought, not to say on circumstances and opportunity; but to my mind it wears its fair...
10. Part 10Cowes makes the Mecca of the yachtsman, as St Andrews of the golfer. It is the most famous station of those idle craft that in our day diverge into two different forms--the stea...
11. Part 11_Sir Bevis of Hampton_ was one of the favourite romances of the feudal age; and his adventures were familiar to John Bunyan’s unregenerate youth, if little known to the Southamp...
7. Part 7Another of our fellow-passengers was an American gentleman, who in Europe had been qualifying himself to come out as an opera tenor. He was coy of giving us a specimen of his ta...
9. Part 9Ground so well trodden by honeymooning couples seems to offer a fit stage for fiction; and the Isle of Wight, if it sometimes finds itself called out of its proper names, has le...
5. Part 5In old days Sandown, then known rather as Sandham, was distinguished by a “castle,” which has given place to less imposing but more formidable modern forts, serving as models fo...
4. Part 4In fact Newport, too much neglected by tourists, unless as a halting-place, would make an excellent station for visiting the whole Island. I must be content with taking the read...
6. Part 6The shift in medical opinion as to the cure of consumption by pure and dry air, however cold, must have somewhat blown upon Ventnor’s reputation; and it may in future come to de...
3. Part 3Before holding on by road, rail, or boat along the coast, let us take a course through the centre of the Island, on which we can pay due respect to its capital. From Ryde, Cowes...
8. Part 8The bard whose “lucky rhymes to him were scrip and share” indeed, while more than one of his publishers dropped off “flaccid and drained,” was able later on to build himself a r...
1. Part 1_The_ Island, as its people are in the way of styling it, while not going so far as to deny existence to the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland--the Wight, as it is s...
12. Part 12The Black Bear. By H. PERRY ROBINSON The Cat. By VIOLET HUNT The Dog. By G. E. MITTON The Fox. By J.C. TREGARTHEN The Rat. By G. M. A. HEWETT The Squirrel. By T. C. BRIDGES