Category: Historical Novels
The dismission was for the spring vacation. It was at the close of a mild March day; there was a peculiar warmth in the blue sky and cloudless sunset; the south winds lightly stirred the pines, and through the open window wandered into the school-room.
London.--Westminster Abbey.--Westminster Hall and Parliament Houses.--The Tower.--Sir Henry Wyat and His Cat.--Madame Tussaud's Wax Works.--Tommy Accosts a Stranger.--Hampton Co...
15. CHAPTER XV.Paris the Beautiful.--Notre Dame.--Tuileries and Louvre.--Garden of the Tuileries.--Bois de Boulogne.--Church of the Invalides.-- Napoleon's Tomb.--Place de la Concorde.--Story...
3. CHAPTER III.Normandy.--Story of the New Forest and the Red King.--Story of Robert of Normandy.--Story of the White Ship.--Story of the Frolicsome Duke and the Tinker's Good Fortune.--Master...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Avranches.--Riding on Diligences.--Mont St. Michel.--Chateaubriand.-- Madame de Sévigné.--Brittany.--Breton Stories.--Story of the Old Woman's Cow.--Story of the Wonderful Sack....
4. CHAPTER IV.An ocean steamer! Though a speck upon the waters, what a world it seems! What symmetry, what strength, what a triumph of human skill! What a cheerful sense of security one feels...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Belgium.--Dog-carts.--Waterloo.--Aix-la-Chapelle and Charlemagne.--Story of Charlemagne.--Ghent and James van Artevelde.--Bruges.--Story of Charles the Rash.--Longfellow's "Belf...
6. CHAPTER VI.The following day was to be the last the party were to spend in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. In the evening the Class met as by appointment, and, at the suggestion of Wyllys...
7. CHAPTER VII.Carlisle was the ancient seat of the kings of Cambria, and was a Roman station in the early days of the Christian era. It was destroyed in 900 by the Danes, was ravaged by the P...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The Class stopped briefly at Calais, and was disappointed to find a city so famous in history situated in a barren district, and surrounded with little that is picturesque. The...
11. CHAPTER XI.An English Skylark.--Letter from George Howe.--Tommy's Account of his Nottingham Adventure.--Glastonbury Abbey.--The Beginning of the English Church.--St. Joseph of Arimathæa an...
8. CHAPTER VIII."Have stood by the graves of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The trees were green and cool; the Rotha rippled beside the poets' resting-place, and Helvellyn and Catchedicam in the dis...
9. CHAPTER IX.Tommy goes hunting.--"Peveril of the Peak."--The Boy at the Wheel.--Leamington.--Stratford-on-Avon.--Shakspeare's Birthplace, Garden, and Tomb.--Queer Relics.--Kenilworth.--Erne...
2. CHAPTER II.Plans for the Journey.--The Boys' Letters to Master Lewis.--Tom Toby's Plans.--The New Society.--Master Lewis arranges a Cheap Tour for George and Leander.--What may be seen for...
1. CHAPTER I.The dismission was for the spring vacation. It was at the close of a mild March day; there was a peculiar warmth in the blue sky and cloudless sunset; the south winds lightly st...
5. CHAPTER V.Old Glasgow, almost encircled by hills and uplands, presents a picturesque view, as the steamer moves slowly up the narrowing channel of the Clyde. But with its rapid commercial...
17. CHAPTER XVII."Only three days more remain to us in France," said Master Lewis, after spending two days in Nantes. "We will now return to Paris by rail, stopping a few hours in Orleans, and f...
10. CHAPTER X."If it be so, what a monument the good king left behind him! It was this king, was it not, whose mother offered a beautiful manuscript to the one of her four sons who would firs...