Young Americans Abroad


Young Americans Abroad, by Various

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Title: Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland
Author: Various
Editor: J.O. Choules
Release Date: February 19, 2007 [EBook #20625]
Language: English
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YOUNG AMERICANS ABROAD;
OR,
VACATION IN EUROPE:
TRAVELS
IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND.
With Illustrations.
BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN,
89 WASHINGTON STREET. 1852.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY

TO
GEORGE SUMNER, ESQ.,
AS A
SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE
FOR HIS KIND ATTENTIONS IN PARIS,
AND IN
ADMIRATION OF TALENTS DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF
FREEDOM,
THESE LETTERS ARE RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED,
BY HIS OBLIGED FRIENDS,
THE AUTHORS.

LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS.
* * * * *
I. FRONTISPIECE--CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. GUDULE, BRUSSELS.
II. ICEBERGS SEEN FROM STEAMSHIP "ARCTIC," APRIL 6, 1851, 24
III. PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CHATTERTON, 56
IV. PORTRAIT OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, 61
V. PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, 88
VI. VIEW OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON, 148
VII. A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 150
VIII. VIEW OF THE POET'S CORNER, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 185
IX. VIEW OF THE COLONNE DE JUILLET, 196
X. VINTAGE OF THE RHINE, 275
XI. VIEW OF A SWISS COTTAGE, 305
XII. NAPOLEON'S SARCOPHAGUS, 324

INTRODUCTION
One evening last winter a few private pupils were sitting in the study of their instructor, when he stated his intention to pass the spring vacation in Europe, and his wish to have two or three of his young friends as his travelling companions. An earnest and joyous desire was expressed by each lad to enjoy the gratification, and in the course of a short period the arrangements were made which afforded him the pleasure to assure three boys that they should accompany him. The ages of the young travelers were twelve, fourteen, and sixteen. Their attention was immediately directed to a course of reading adapted to prepare them for the beneficial use of the proposed tour; and during its progress each boy kept a journal, which was useful as a reference in the correspondence kept up with friends and families at home. A companion in study, left behind, and prevented by duty from joining the party, wished to have constant advices of the movements of his friends; and the letters of the young travellers to a lad of sixteen are, at the advice of many friends, now submitted to the perusal of those at that age. No similar work is known to the authors of these letters; and at the forthcoming gift season it is hoped that the young of our country may be amused and gratified by these reminiscences of other lands.
J.O. CHOULES.
NEWPORT, R.I., Nov. 25, 1851.

CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
LETTER I.
Arrival at New York.
LETTER II.
Going on board Steamer.--Arctic.--Weather.--Passengers.--Loss of Life and Burial at Sea.--Icebergs.--Sabbath at Sea.--Land.--Excellence of Collins Line.--Adelphi Hotel.
LETTER III.
Liverpool; Its Public Buildings, Docks, &c.
LETTER IV.
Birmingham.--Arrival in London.--Strand.--Temple Bar.--Fleet Street.--London Exchange.--London Coffee House.--Omnibuses.
LETTER V.
United States Minister in London.--His kind Attentions.--Crystal Palace.--London of other Days.--Monument.--The Bridges.
LETTER VI.
Villages.--Camberwel.--Accidents and Murders in England as common as in America.--Greenwich Fair.--Gypsies.
LETTER VII.
Great Western Railroad.--Swindon.--Bristol.--Scenes of early Life.--Ancient City.--Clifton and Hot Wells.--Redcliffe Church.--Chatterton.
LETTER VIII.
Bristol Cathedral.--Monuments and Inscriptions.--Butler.--Mason.--Southey.--Cloisters.--Mayor's Chapel.--Dundry.--Vine Prospect.--School attended in Boyhood.
LETTER IX.
Clifton.--Avon.--Hot Wells.--Vincent's Rocks.--Robert Hall.--Sublime Scenery.--Leigh Court Picture Gallery.
LETTER X
Bath.--Royal Crescent.--Queen Square.--Cathedral.--Hot Baths.--Bradford.--Trowbridge.--Devizes.--Cricket.
LETTER XI.
Tower of London; its History.--Horse Armory.--Antiquities and Curiosities.--Executions.--Regalia, &c.
LETTER XII.
Thames Tunnel.--New Houses of Parliament.--House of Lords described.--Fresco Paintings.--St. Stephen's Hall.--House of Commons.--Westminster Hall; its Associations, festive and criminal.
LETTER XIII.
British Museum; its fine Galleries, Pictures, Library, Autographs, and MSS.--The Place to study.--Lord Campbell.--Servant who resorted to it.
LETTER XIV.
Woolwich.--Naval Arsenal and Dock Yard.--Ships of War.--Yard.--Twenty Thousand Cannon.--Greenwich.--Blackheath.--Lee Grove.--Golden Cross and its Host.--Mr. Lawrence's Soirée.--Duke of Wellington.
LETTER XV.
Exhibition.--Season Tickets.--Wet Weather.--One May fine.--City Streets.--Throng around Palace.--Arrival of the Queen.--Opening Scenes.--Procession, &c.
LETTER XVI.
Fine Equipages.--Appearance of the Palace.--Walk through the Exhibition.--American Contributions.--Greek Slave, &c.--Medi?val Court.--Kohinoor Glass Window.--Austrian Furniture.--Amazon of Kiss.--Crusaders.--Galleries.--Transept.--Glass Fountain.-- Sculpture.--Veiled Vesta.--Machinery.--Models.--Model of Liverpool.--Plate Glass.--Taunton Cabinet--Steam Power, &c.
LETTER XVII.
Royal Polytechnic Institution.--Lectures.--Egyptian Hall.--Panorama of Overland Route to California.--Exeter Hall Sermons.--Wyld's great Globe.--Zo?logical Gardens.--Christ's Church Hospital; its Boys.
LETTER XVIII.
Windsor Castle; its History.--Interior of the Palace.-- Pictures.--Waterloo Chamber.--St. George's Chanel.--Royal Tombs.--Edward IV.--Henry VIII.--Charles I., Discovery of his Body in 1813, Account of the Appearance, &c.--Terraces of the Castle.--Eton College.--Datchett.--Great Park.--Long Walk.--Celebrated Trees.--Virginia Water.--Cumberland Lodge.--Frogmore.
LETTER XIX.
Sir John Soane's Museum, House, Antiquities, Pictures.--Hogarth's "Rake's Progress," and the "Election."--Wonderful Economy of Room, &c.--Greenwich; Hospital, Chapel, Paintings, and Statuary.--Queen's Stables; Horses, Harness Room, State Carriage.--Soyer's Symposium; Description of its Rooms.--Dinner there.
LETTER XX.
The Temple