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Church and its historical Associations.--Steamboat on Thames.--View of St. Paul's from River.--St. Paul's Cathedral; its Dome.--Statues: Johnson, Howard, Reynolds, Heber, West, Nelson.--Ascent of the Dome and Cross.--View of London.
LETTER XXI.
Westminster Abbey.--Early History.--Associations.--Poet's Corner.--Chapels.--Monuments and Effigies.--Coronation Chairs.--Stone of Scone Statuary.--Sermon in Abbey by Lord John Thynne.
LETTER XXII.
Hyde Park.--St. James's and Green Park.--Regent's Park.--Squares of London.--Northumberland House.--Sion House.--St Margaret's Church.--St. Martin's in-the-Fields.
LETTER XXIII.
Mission House.--Lord Mayor's Day.--Royal Exchange.--Bank of England.--London Docks.--Covent Garden Market.
LETTER XXIV.
Rev. Dr. Murray.--Dover Castle.--Passage across the Channel.-- Calais.--St. Omer.--Douai.--Arras.--Amiens.--Clermont.--Paris.-- Hotel Windsor.--A Mistake, and Loss of a Dinner.
LETTER XXV.
Gardens and Promenades.--Gayety.--Flowers.--Wrong Drawing-room.--Notre Dame.--Interior.--Sacristy.--Robes and Relics.--Hotel de Ville.--Louvre shut.--Paris by Moonlight.
LETTER XXVI.
Palais Royal.--Garden.--Gay Scene.--Passage d'Orleans.--House opposite to which Henry IV. was assassinated by Ravaillac.--Moli��re.--Marat and Charlotte Corday.--Palace of the Luxembourg.--Paintings.--Gardens.-- Statuary.--Chapel.
LETTER XXVII
Hotel de Cluny; History, Associations, Interior, wonderful Contents.--Julian's Palace of the Baths.--Mr. George Sumner.--Church of St. Sulpice.--Statuary.--Ecclesiastical Fountain.--Biblioth��que St. Genevi��ve.--Church of St. Etienne du Mont.--History.--Monuments of Racine and Pascal.--Christening an Infant.--Church of St. Germain des Pres, (oldest in Paris); its Restoration going on.--Tombs of Descartes, Mabillon, Montfaucon, &c.
LETTER XXVIII.
Jardin des Plantes; Situation, History.--Cedar of Lebanon and Palm-trees.--Menagerie.--Cuvier.--Museum of Comparative Anatomy, &c.--Paris owes much to Henry IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis Philippe.--Pont Neuf.--St. Bartholomew's Massacre.--Bastile.--Column.
LETTER XXIX.
An amusing Fellow-countryman.--P��re la Chaise.--Monuments.--Abattoir. --Consul's Office; his numerous Calls.
LETTER XXX.
Cirque.--Amusements.--Champs Elys��es.--Hippodrome.--Arabs.--Sabbath kept in Parlor.
LETTER XXXI.
Pleasant Company.--Railroad to Brussels.--Jemappes.--Mons.--Brussels; History.--Hotel de Ville.--Cathedral Church of St. Gudule; its Monuments.--First Communion.--Park.--Palace.--Hon. Mr. Bayard.
LETTER XXXII.
Lacework.--Money Matters.--An uncivil Banker.--Museum.--Paintings. --Burgundian Library.--Manekin.--Botanical Garden.
LETTER XXXIII.
Excursion to Waterloo.--Hongomont.--Relics.--Belgian Mound and Lion.--Ivy from Waterloo for Mr. J.P. Hall.--Church.--King Leopold.
LETTER XXXIV.
Laeken.--Vilvorde.--Mechlin, or Mallnes.--Antwerp; History.--Place Verte.--Statue of Rubens.--Cathedral of Notre Dame.--Interior Pulpit.--Pictures by Rubens.--Tower of the Church.--Quentin Matsys's fine old Houses.
LETTER XXXV.
St. James's Church.--Tomb of Rubens.--Paintings by Rubens and Jordaens.--Vandyke.--Mount Calvary.--Monk of La Trappe.--Museum.--Chair of Rubens; his Pictures.--Other great Works of Art.--St. Andrew's Church.--Bourse.--Mr. Vesey, U.S. Consul.
LETTER XXXVI.
Dock Yards at Antwerp.--Steamboat Passage on the Scheldt.--Dort.--Lost Villages.--Bergen op Zoom.--Van Speyk.--Rotterdam.--Erasmus.--Delft. --Hague.--Hon. George Folsom; his Kindness.--Scheveningen.--Museum. --Japanese Curiosities.--Historical Curiosities.--Gallery of Pictures. --Rembrandt, Paul Potter, Gerard Dow, &c.--King's Palace.--Brimenhoff. --De Witt.--Bosch.--John Adams's House.
LETTER XXXVII.
Dunes.--Leyden; History.--Harlem.--Church of St. Bavon; Organ.--Coster.--Flower Gardens.--Palace of late King.--Picture Gallery.--Exhibition of Pictures by living Artists.--Amsterdam.
LETTER XXXVIII.
Mr. J.G. Schwartze.--Stadhuis.--Churches.--Jews.--Picture Gallery.--Dutch School.--Columbus before the Council.--Artists' Club.
LETTER XXXIX.
Utrecht.--Lobith.--Ruhrort.--Meet with Americans on Return from the East.--Cologne; History.--Cathedral.--Three Kings.--Relics.--St. Peter's Church.--Crucifixion of Peter, by Rubens.--Champagne for America.
LETTER XL.
The Rhine.--Bonn.--Drachenfels.--Godesberg.--Rolandseck.--Oberwinter. --Okenfels.--Castle Reineck.--Neuwied.--A Raft.--Castle of Sain.--Ehrenbreitstein.--Coblentz.
LETTER XLI.
Coblentz.--The Moselle.--Excursion to Stolzenfels.--Curiosities.--Fine View.--Boat up to Mayence.--The Brothers.--Rheinfels.--Lurley Rock.--Seven Sisters.--Pfalz.--The Rheingau.--Falkenberg.--Rheinstein. --Assmanshausen.--Ehrenfels.--Mausetherm.--Bingen.--Geisenheim. --Johannisberg.--Erbach.--Biberich.--Mayence.--John Guttemberg's Statue--Austrian Troops.--An English Nobleman.
LETTER XLII.
Frankfort.--The R?mer; its Portraits of the Emperors.--Mr. Bethman's Gallery of Statuary.--Ariadne.--Jews' Quarters.--Darmstadt.--The Bergstrasse.--Heidelberg.--Castle.--Baden.--Kehl.--Strasburg.
LETTER XLIII.
Cathedral; Its History; Interior Clock.--St. Thomas's Church.--Kleber's Tomb.
LETTER XLIV.
Vosges Mountains.--Vineyards.--Colmar.--M��hlhausen.--Basle.--Black Forest.--United States Consul, Mr. Burchardt.--Cathedral.--Tomb of Erasmus.--Chapter House.--Holbein Gallery.--University.--Library. --MSS.--St. Jacob.--Tea Party.
LETTER XLV.
Moutiers Valley.--Sublime Scenery.--Domach.--Arch.--Roman Antiquities.--Berne.--Mechanical Clock.--Cathedral; Organ, Choir, Bears.--Lausanne.
LETTER XLVI.
Mountain Scenery.--Hotel Gibbon.--Episcopal Church.--Signal.--Hotel de Ville, and its kind Inhabitants.--Cathedral; its History.--Steamboat to Vevay.--Castle of Chillon.--St. Martin's Church and the Regicides.--Geneva.--Cathedral.--Museum.--Calvin's MBS.--D'Aubign��.--Gaussen--Malan.--Evangelical Association; its Anniversary.--Count George.--Soir��e.--Mr. Delorme.--The Sal��ve.--Savoy.--Rousseau's Island.
LETTER XLVII.
Diligence for Dijon.--Fine Scenery.--Dijon; History.--Railroad to Paris.--Sens.--Cathedral.--Fontainebleau.
LETTER XLVIII.
Methodist Chapel.--Madeline.--Pantheon.--Louvre, open.--Statuary and Paintings.--Versailles.--Statuary.--Series of National Paintings.--Portraits of distinguished Men.--Apartments.--Gardens and Fountains.--Grand and Petit Trianon.--Passy.--St. Cloud.
LETTER XLIX.
Glass Depot--American Friends.--Good Intentions.--Hospital des Invalides.--Garden of the Tulleries; its Scenery.--Triumphal Arch.--Chapel of St. Ferdinand.--National Library.--A Tradesman's Memory.
LETTER L.
Calais; its Recollections.--Rough Passage of the Channel.--Dover.--Mr. Peabody's Entertainment on the Fourth of July described.--Company.--A patriotic Act.
LETTER LI.
Entertainment at the Belgian Minister's.--Young Nobility.--A noble Boy.--Craven Chapel.--Slavery.--Exhibition.--Pauper Labor.--Need of a Tariff.
LETTER LII.
Kind Friends at Bristol,--Weston Super Mare.--Museum of Baptist College.--Highbury Chapel.--Old Houses of Bristol.--Fine Churches.
LETTER LIII.
River Avon.--Wye.--Chepstow.--St. Aryan's.--Wynd Cliff.--Glorious Scenery.--Tintern Abbey; its History.--Ragland Castle; Appearance.--Marquis of Worcester.--Chopstow Castle.--Henry Marten.--Defence of the Parliamentary Party.--Severn River.--Old Passage.--Henbury.--Blaize Castle.--Birthday Lines.
LETTER LIV.
Leave Bristol.--Berkeley.--Cheltenham.--Birmingham; Manufactories.--Rev. John Angell James.--Mr. Vanwart.--Liverpool.--Chester; its Antiquity.--Cathedral.--Rows and Pillars.--Englishmen and Americans have much in Common.--Royal Agricultural Exhibition at Windsor.
LETTER LV.
Passage Home in the Steamer Atlantic.--Claims of the Collins Line.--Lessons taught by Travel in other Lands.--Our Comforts.--Excellent Character of many of the English Nobility.--Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.--Prospect of Affairs in Europe.--Popery as seen in her proper Territories.

Young Americans Abroad.

Letter 1.
ASTOR HOUSE, NEW YORK, April 1, 1851.
DEAR CHARLEY:--
I have just arrived at this place, and have found my companions on hand, all ready for the commencement of the long-anticipated voyage. We regret the circumstances which render it your duty to remain, and we all feel very sorry for the disappointment of your wishes and our hopes. You will, however, feel happy in the thought that you are clearly in the path of duty; and you have already learnt that that path is a safe one, and that it always leads to happiness. You have begged us all to write to you as frequently as we can, and we have concluded to send you our joint contributions, drawing largely upon our journals as we move from place to place; and, as we have for so many years had pleasant intercourse in the family circle, we wish to maintain it by correspondence abroad. Our letters will, of course, be very different in their character and interest, because you