IN THE BRITISH ISLES; OR, VACATION RAMBLES IN HISTORIC LANDS. BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT, PUBLISHERS. Copyright, 1889, BY ESTES AND LAURIAT. All Rights Reserved. University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. PREFACE. A N this volume the eleventh in the Zigzag series- an American family go abroad to seek the evidences of one of their home traditions that John Hampden, the English patriot, came to America in 1623 to prepare a colony for the patriots in case the popular cause should fail ; that he visited Massasoit, and learned of a plot to destroy the Pilgrims, which was prevented by this disclosure. The traditional visit was a secret one, and occurred between the two Parliaments of James. The family visit the land of Moore and Goldsmith in Ireland; the English Lake District of the poets; Abbotsford; Scrooby, the land of the Pilgrims; old Boston; Great Hampden, Windsor, and the scenes of Gray's poetry; the west of England and the Isle of Avalon, the scene of the King Arthur legends. The volume contains a miscellany of English wonder-stories, many of them associated with American history, and like the preceding volumes is designed to be entertaining and educational. While purposely zigzaggy, a connected and definite purpose under lies each volume. It is the purpose of this book to show by a shifting scene of stories, legends, and pictures what noble men our English ancestors were. The author has published some of these sketches in the "New York Independent" (1868-70) and in the "Youth's Companion," and one (George III.) in the "Atlantic Monthly." The Arthur legends are edited from the old Saxon Chronicle. 28 WORCESTER STREET, Fanuary 5, 1889. H. B. |