The Lure of the Camera. Charles S. Olcott
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Charles S. Olcott
The Lure of the Camera
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664609427
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Stepping Stones | Frontispiece |
On the River Rothay, near Ambleside, England, and below Fox How, the home of Thomas Arnold of Rugby, grandfather of Mrs. Humphry Ward. One of the scenes in “Robert Elsmere” was suggested by these stones. | |
A Path in Bretton Woods | 10 |
White Mountains, N.H. | |
Profile Lake | 12 |
Showing the Old Man of the Mountains. In the Franconia Notch, White Mountains, N.H. The profile suggested to Hawthorne the tale of “The Great Stone Face.” | |
The Grand Saloon, Arbury Hall | 22 |
Near Nuneaton, England. The original of Cheverel Manor, in George Eliot’s “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story.” | |
A School in Nuneaton | 30 |
Where George Eliot attended school in her eighth or ninth year. | |
The Bromley-Davenport Arms | 34 |
In Ellastone, England, the original of the “Donnithorne Arms” of “Adam Bede.” | |
The Birthplace of Robert Burns | 40 |
In Ayrshire, Scotland. The poet was born here January 25, 1759. The left of the building is the cottage of two rooms where the family lived. Adjoining, on the right, is the “byre,” or cow-house. | |
The Burns Monument, Ayrshire | 44 |
The monument was built in 1820. It is sixty feet high, and almost an exact duplicate of the monument in Edinburgh. | |
The Brig o’ Doon, Ayrshire | 48 |
The bridge over which Tam o’ Shanter rode to escape the witches. | |
Grasmere Lake | 60 |
“For rest of body perfect was the spot.” | |
Dove Cottage, Grasmere | 64 |
Wordsworth’s home for eight years. The view is from the garden in the rear of the cottage. | |
Wordsworth’s Well | 68 |
In the garden of Dove Cottage, where the poet placed “bright gowan and marsh marigold” brought from the border of the lake. | |
Hawthornden | 76 |
The home of the Drummond family, on the banks of the Esk, Scotland. | |
The Sycamore | 80 |
The tree at Hawthornden under which William Drummond met Ben Jonson. | |
Ruins of Roslin Castle | 86 |
In Roslin Glen overlooking the Esk. | |
Mrs. Humphry Ward and Miss Dorothy Ward | 96 |
At the villa in Cadenabbia, overlooking Lake Como, where Mrs. Ward wrote “Lady Rose’s Daughter.” | |
“Under Loughrigg” | 100 |
The view from the study window of Thomas Arnold at Fox How. | |
The Passmore Edwards Settlement House | 104 |
Tavistock Place, London. | |
The Lime Walk | 110 |
In the garden of Trinity College, Oxford. Referred to in “Robert Elsmere.” | |
Cottage of “Mary Backhouse” | 114 |
At Sad Gill, Long Sleddale. The barns and storehouses, on either end, give the small cottage an attenuated appearance. | |
The Rectory of Peper Harow | 118 |
In Surrey, England. The original of Murewell Rectory, the house of “Robert Elsmere.” | |
The Rothay and Nab Scar | 130 |
From Pelter Bridge, Ambleside, England. | |
Lake Como | 138 |
From “the path that led to the woods overhanging the Villa Carlotta.” | |