Part 1

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STRAY STUDIES

FROM

ENGLAND AND ITALY.

JOHN RICHARD GREEN.

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1876.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE.

I have to thank the Editors of Macmillan's Magazine and the Saturday Review for allowing me to reprint most of the papers in this series. In many cases however I have greatly changed their original form. A few pages will be found to repeat what I have already said in my 'Short History.'

CONTENTS

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A BROTHER OF THE POOR 1

SKETCHES IN SUNSHINE:--

I. CANNES AND ST. HONORAT 31 II. CARNIVAL ON THE CORNICE 44 III. TWO PIRATE TOWNS OF THE RIVIERA 59 IV. THE WINTER RETREAT 71 V. SAN REMO 79

THE POETRY OF WEALTH 93

LAMBETH AND THE ARCHBISHOPS 107

CHILDREN BY THE SEA 167

THE FLORENCE OF DANTE 181

BUTTERCUPS 198

ABBOT AND TOWN 211

HOTELS IN THE CLOUDS 241

ÆNEAS: A VERGILIAN STUDY 257

TWO VENETIAN STUDIES:--

I. VENICE AND ROME 289 II. VENICE AND TINTORETTO 300

THE DISTRICT VISITOR 313

THE EARLY HISTORY OF OXFORD 329

THE HOME OF OUR ANGEVIN KINGS 359

CAPRI 383