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LONDON FILMS AND CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS

Written by W.D. Howells
Published by Harper And Brothers in 1911

LONDON FILMS AND CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS
Written by W.D. Howells.
Stock no. 2133988
Circa. 1911. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with black titles. B/w plates. Spotting to covers and outer page edges.

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Front cover

Cover of LONDON FILMS AND CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS by W.D. Howells

Contents

  • I. Meteorological Emotions
  • II. Civic and Social Comparisons, Mostly Odious
  • III. Shows and Side-Shows of State
  • IV. The Dun Year's Brilliant Flower
  • V. The Sights and Sounds of the Streets
  • VI. In the Gallery of the Commons
  • VII. The Means of Sojourn
  • VIII. Certain Traits of the London Springtime
  • IX. Some Voluntary and Involuntary Sight-Seeing
  • X. Glimpses of the Lowly and the Lowlier
  • XI. Twice-Seen Sights and Half-Fancied Facts
  • XII. An Afternoon at Hampton Court
  • XIII. A Sunday Morning in the Country
  • XIV. Fishing for Whitebait
  • XV. Henley Day
  • XVI. American Origins-Mostly Northern
  • XVII. American Origins-Mostly Southern
  • XVIII. Aspects and Intimations
  • XIX. Parting Guests
  • Certain Delightful English Towns
  • I. The Landing of a Pilgrim at Plymouth
  • II. Twenty-Four Hours at Exeter
  • III. A Fortnight in Bath
  • IV. A Country Town and a County House
  • V. Afternoons in Wells and Bristol
  • VI. By Way of Southampton to London
  • VII. In Folkestone out of Season
  • VIII. Kentish Neighborhoods, Including Canterbury
  • IX. Oxford
  • X. The Charm of Chester
  • XI. Malvern Among Her Hills
  • XII. Shrewsbury by Way of Worcester and Herford
  • XIII. Northampton and the Washington Country