Seven English Cities

Seven English Cities

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SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES
by
W. D. HOWELLS
Illustrated
[Illustration: A VIEW OF MONK BAR]
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BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND COMMENT BY WILLIAM DEAN
HOWELLS
ROMAN HOLIDAYS............................... net $3.00 Traveller's
Edition...................... net 3.00
CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS, Ill'd...... net 3.00
Traveller's Edition...................... net 3.00
LONDON FILMS. Illustrated.................... net 2.25 Traveller's
Edition...................... net 2.25
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN....................... .50
MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. Illustrated.......... .50
CRITICISM AND FICTION........................ 1.00
HEROINES OF FICTION. Illustrated............. net 3.75
IMPRESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES.................. 1.50
LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE. Ill'd..... 2.50
LITERATURE AND LIFE.......................... net 2.25
MODERN ITALIAN POETS. Illustrated............ 2.00
MY LITERARY PASSIONS......................... 1.75
STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS...................... 2.50 Limited
Edition......................... 15.00
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CONTENTS
A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL SOME MERITS OF
MANCHESTER IN SMOKIEST SHEFFIELD NINE DAYS'
WONDER IN YORK TWO YORKISH EPISODES A DAY AT
DONCASTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DURHAM THE MOTHER
OF THE AMERICAN ATHENS ABERYSTWYTH, A WELSH
WATERING-PLACE LLANDUDNO, ANOTHER WELSH
WATERING-PLACE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH CHARACTER
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ILLUSTRATIONS
A VIEW OF MONK BAR ST. GEORGE'S HALL, LIVERPOOL THE
WELLINGTON MONUMENT, LIVERPOOL THE LIVERPOOL
DOCKS MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL TOWN HALL,
MANCHESTER THE MANCHESTER SHIP-CANAL TOWN HALL,
SHEFFIELD YORK MINSTER--THE GRANDEST IN ALL
ENGLAND BOOTHAM BAR AND THE MINSTER WALMGATE
BAR HAS A BARBICAN ST. MARY'S ABBEY CLIFFORD'S
TOWER YORK AS SEEN FROM THE RIVER DURHAM
CATHEDRAL--NORTHWEST VIEW FINCHALE PRIORY
DURHAM CATHEDRAL--ITS MATCHLESS SEAT ON THE
BLUFFS OF THE RIVER THE "STUMP" OF ST. BOTOLPH'S
CHURCH AGAINST THE SKY THE WORTHY ANCESTRESS OF
FANEUIL HALL AND QUINCY MARKET-PLACES THE RIVER
AT EVENING LIFTING ITS TOWER FROM THE BRINK OF THE
WITHAM FISHING-SHIPS AT GREAT GRIMSBY THE BEACH,
ABERYSTWYTH ABERYSTWYTH FROM CRAIG GLAS ROCKS
LLANDUDNO--THE CITY AND HARBOR LLANDUDNO FROM
GREAT ORME'S NECK THE GREAT PIER, LLANDUDNO
CONWAY CASTLE PLAS MAWR A PRESENTATION AT COURT
THE ENGLISH HOUSEMAID LEADS A LIFE OF GAYETY ON
THE SANDS
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A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL

Why should the proud stomach of American travel, much tossed in the
transatlantic voyage, so instantly have itself carried from Liverpool to
any point where trains will convey it? Liverpool is most worthy to be
seen and known, and no one who looks up from the bacon and eggs of
his first hotel breakfast after landing, and finds himself confronted by
the coal-smoked Greek architecture of St. George's Hall, can deny that
it is of a singularly noble presence. The city has moments of failing in
the promise of this classic edifice, but every now and then it reverts to
it, and reminds the traveller that he is in a great modern metropolis of
commerce by many other noble edifices.
I
Liverpool does not remind him of this so much as the good and true
Baedeker professes, in the dockside run on the overhead railway (as the
place unambitiously calls its elevated road); but then, as I noted in my
account of Southampton, docks have a fancy of taking themselves in,
and eluding the tourist eye, and even when they "flank the Mersey for a
distance of 6-7 M." they do not respond to American curiosity so
frankly as could be wished. They are like other English things in that,
however, and it must be said for them that when apparent they are
sometimes unimpressive. From my own note-book, indeed, I find that I
pretended to think them "wonderful and almost