In so presenting them, it is with the belief that it may be pleasant to those who have visited the same scenes to revisit them in fancy with the writer, and with a hope that the volume may, in some degree, serve as a guide to those who intend to go "over the ocean," as well as an agreeable entertainment to the stay-at-homes.
Going Abroad.--What it costs.--Hints to Tourists.--Life on board Ship.--Land Ho!--Examining Luggage.--The Emerald Isle.--Blarney Castle.--Dublin.--Dublin Castle.--St. Patrick's Cathedral.--Cheap John's Paradise.--Phoenix Park.--Across the Irish Sea.--Railroad travelling in England.--Guard _vs._ Conductor.--Word to the Wise.-- Railroad Stations.--An Old English City.--Chester Cathedral.--The City Walls. 1-28
Chester to Liverpool.--An English Breakfast.--A Trial of Patience.--Liverpool Docks.--St. George's Hall.--Poverty and Suffering.--The Lake District.--Home of the Poets.-- Keswick.--An English Church.--The Druids' Temple.-- Brougham Hall.--A Roadside Inn. 28-46
Edinburgh.--Historic Streets.--Edinburgh Castle.--Bonnie Dundee.--Rooms of Historic Story.--The Scottish Regalia. --Curiosities of the Old City.--Holyrood Palace.--Relics of the Past.--Holyrood Abbey.--Antiquarian Museum.--Scott and Scotland.--Hawthornden.--Roslin Chapel.--Melrose Abbey.--The Abbey Hotel.--Abbotsford.--Stirling Castle.-- The Tournament Field.--Field of Bannockburn.--Lady of the Lake Scenes.--Scotch Lakes and Hills. 47-79
Glasgow Cathedral.--Vestiges of Vandalism.--Bible Stories in Colored Glass.--The Actor's Epitaph.--Tam O'Shanter's Ride.--Burns's Cottage.--Kirk Alloway.--A Reminder from the Witches.--Bonnie Doon.--Newcastle-on-Tyne.--York.-- Beauties of York Minster.--Old Saxon Relics.--Sheffield.-- The Cutlery Works.--English Mechanics.--English Ale.-- Chatsworth.--Interior of the Palace.--Sculpture Gallery.-- Landscape Effects.--Grand Conservatory.--Haddon Hall. 80-115
Kenilworth.--Stratford on Avon.--Interesting Mementos.-- Stratford Church.--Shakespeare's Safeguard.--Warwick Castle.--Dungeon and Hall.--Warder's Horn and Warwick Vase.--Leicester's Hospital.--Beauchamp Chapel.--Mugby Junction.--Oxford.--The Mitre Tavern.--Bodleian Library. --Literary Treasures.--Curiosities and Rarities.--Story of an Old Portrait.--Queen Bess on Matrimony.--Addison's Walk.--Boating on the Isis.--Martyr's Memorial. 116-151