Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . Michaels Mount Looking West from the Parapet of the North Michaels Mount ....The New Buildings, St. Michaels MountA Family Party Hauling the SeineLooking East from the BatterySt. Michaels Chair ....The View Seaward from St. Michaels Mount Mount Court, St. 299^01303;o6307311 313315317319321 323 St owe The North Front of Stowe . . .The Avenue leading to Corinthian Arch, Stowe .The Palladian Bridge, Stowe Gardens . The Corinthian Arch The South Front of Stowe . . , . A Corner of the North Hall, Stowe The State Dining-Room, Stowe, showing Tap
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . Michaels Mount Looking West from the Parapet of the North Michaels Mount ....The New Buildings, St. Michaels MountA Family Party Hauling the SeineLooking East from the BatterySt. Michaels Chair ....The View Seaward from St. Michaels Mount Mount Court, St. 299^01303;o6307311 313315317319321 323 St owe The North Front of Stowe . . .The Avenue leading to Corinthian Arch, Stowe .The Palladian Bridge, Stowe Gardens . The Corinthian Arch The South Front of Stowe . . , . A Corner of the North Hall, Stowe The State Dining-Room, Stowe, showing Tapestries The Grenville Column The State Drawing-Room, Stowe . .Oxford Lodge 329 333 335 337339340 Ml 342 ?flllustrations xxv PAGE The Library at Stowe 343 Temple of Concord and Victory, Stowe. Cedars planted by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort in 1848 . 344 The Marble Saloon, Stowe . 345 The Gothic Temple, Stowe Park 347 Certain of the photographs illustrating this article are by Mr. L. Varney, Photographer, Bucl<ingham. MoUaton Iball. WOLLATON HALL FROM THE TERRACE LAWN WOLLATON HALL BY LADY MIDDLETON The ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.—Book of Psalms. WE quoted this as we stood one evening and looked overtile lal<es end at old Jolm of Paduas lo ! as we lool<ed, tlie rays of tlie setting sunstruck the marvellous fenestration of that dainty pile till ther wrought-gold garbing of the kings daughter seemed but a pallidsimile, and the ivory palace stood on its hill in a blaze of splen-dour, while the lake-waters below us mirrored that glory in alustre well-nigh as brilliant as its own. To what can one com-pare it ? said we breathlessly. A gorgeous gas illumination ! A splendid transformation scene! spoke two, of urban soul, 3 4 Mollaton Iball simultaneously. Nay, but electric light through topaz, said amore poetic imaginer. But we refused such material sugges-tions. Mother, said a child— see ! the sun has gone to bedinside Wollaton
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