. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . e sea. ToNew Englanders the connection of Henry James with the Enghsh town isof special interest, for it was there that he lived for part of each of twentyyears, in the old Lamb house, which we show on page 191 together withhis library, in which he wrote many of his books. Mr. James was a familiarfigure in the town and when he died he was much missed by the is an interesting tragedy connected with this Lamb, who was the previousowner of the house in which James lived. Lamb once sentenced a certain butcherfor false
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . e sea. ToNew Englanders the connection of Henry James with the Enghsh town isof special interest, for it was there that he lived for part of each of twentyyears, in the old Lamb house, which we show on page 191 together withhis library, in which he wrote many of his books. Mr. James was a familiarfigure in the town and when he died he was much missed by the is an interesting tragedy connected with this Lamb, who was the previousowner of the house in which James lived. Lamb once sentenced a certain butcherfor false weights, whereupon the latter stabbed by mistake a man called Grebell,who had lived in the house before Lamb bought it and who was a relative of murder of an innocent man caused such a tremendous sensation that the skullof the butcher and the gibbet upon wliich he was hung are both preserved in thetown hall. One of the attractive streets of the town is called Mermaid Street,upon which is situated Mermaid Inn. PORTSMOUTH aiid RYE, NEW HAMPSHIRE 193. ■;{ hy d Baslon collector Formerly in the lolltvtion of J. B. Seers, Essex, England. PORTSMOUTH, ENGL.\ND, 1825 Portsmouth Harbour, England, and the long sea road between the Isle of Wightand Hampshire is so safe for vessels that seamen often call it the Kings Bed-chamber. Portsmouth is one of the famous cities of England and, of course,received its name from the mouth of the port, which was believed in this case wouldbecome the port of England. The name was originally derived from the Romanword Portus. The earUest record of the island of Portsea, upon which the city issituated, was during the time of King Ethelred, who granted it to the new Minsterat Winchester. Portsmouth Harbour was used by the Romans, who built the for-tress of Porchester; the port was also used by Henry III as the place for assemblinghis expeditions to Gascony, between which place and Portsmouth much trade wascarried on at one time. To Portsmout
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