Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . and every kind of decoration. It makesthree sides of a square, and you willform some idea of its extent when 1 tellyou that a suite of rooms continuesround the house six hundred feet inlength. 1 have seen doors open throughthe whole front of the building, threehundred feet, as long as Park Street —a vista indeed. The Great Hall rises tothe top of the house, is gorgeous withdecoration, and is of immense apartments and interminable cor-ridors are tilled with masterpieces ofart, painting, and sculpture, in everyroom you are surround
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . and every kind of decoration. It makesthree sides of a square, and you willform some idea of its extent when 1 tellyou that a suite of rooms continuesround the house six hundred feet inlength. 1 have seen doors open throughthe whole front of the building, threehundred feet, as long as Park Street —a vista indeed. The Great Hall rises tothe top of the house, is gorgeous withdecoration, and is of immense apartments and interminable cor-ridors are tilled with masterpieces ofart, painting, and sculpture, in everyroom you are surrounded with the most beautiful objects of vertu,tables of porphyry and Oriental alabaster, vases of the most ele-gant and capricious forms, etc. Her late Majesty visited Castle Howard in i8so. Mr. W. was present when the Queen arrived,-and in a letter tohis wife, dated the 24th of August, he describes the visit at somelength. The following is an extract:— All now is bustle andpreparation for the Royal visit which is to come off on the 27th,. ANTIQUE BRONZE STATUETTE OF HERCULES, DISCOVERED NEAR NAWORTH PRESERVED AT CASTLE HOWARD
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