# English Hours (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1905)

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English Hours
By
Henry James
See p. 180
MAGDALEN TOWER, OXFORD
English Hours
By Henry James With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell
Cambridge Printed at The Riverside Press mdccccv
COPYRIGHT 1875 1883 BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
COPYRIGHT 1893 BY HARPER & BROTHERS
COPYRIGHT 1905 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1905
Four Hundred Copies Printed Number ............
NOTE
THE papers gathered into this series, originally published in various periodicals, have already been reprinted—the earliest in date more than thirty years ago; the others, with the exception of two, more recently, in a volume entitled "Portraits of Places." They have been here once more placed together, for the great advantage they will be felt to derive from the company and support of Mr. Pennell's illustrations. Each article is marked with ​its date, and it is obvious that the impressions and observations they for the most part embody had sprung from an early stage of acquaintance with their general subject-matter. They represent a good many wonderments and judgments and emotions, whether felicities or mistakes, the fine freshness of which the author has—to his misfortune, no doubt—sufficiently outlived. But they may perhaps on that very account present something of a curious interest. I may add that I have again attentively looked them over, with a view to any possible amendment of their form or enhancement of their meaning, and that I have nowhere scrupled to rewrite a sentence or a passage on judging it susceptible of a better turn.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
THE chapters on "London" and "Browning in Westminster Abbey" are included in this volume by the courteous permission of Messrs. Harper & Brothers, publishers of the volume of Mr. James's "Portraits of Places" in which they originally appeared.
Acknowledgment is also due to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to reprint the chapter on "Winchelsea, Rye, and 'Denis Duval,'" which first appeared in "Scribner's Magazine."
CONTENTS
| LONDON | I |
| BROWNING IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY | 51 |
| CHESTER | 61 |
| LICHFIELD AND WARWICK | 77 |
| NORTH DEVON | 93 |
| WELLS AND SALISBURY | 107 |
| AN ENGLISH EASTER | 121 |
| LONDON AT MIDSUMMER | 153 ​ |
| TWO EXCURSIONS | 175 |
| IN WARWICKSHIRE | 197 |
| ABBEYS AND CASTLES | 225 |
| ENGLISH VIGNETTES | 245 |
| AN ENGLISH NEW YEAR | 269 |
| AN ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE | 277 |
| WINCHELSEA, RYE AND "DENIS DUVAL" | 287 |
| OLD SUFFOLK | 317 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Tower on the Walls, Chester | Half-title |
| Magdalen Tower, Oxford (see p. 189) | Frontispiece |
| The Gate-House, Cambridge | Title |
| The Senate House, Oxford | v |
| Peterhouse Quad, Cambridge | vii |
| The Medway and Rochester Keep | ix |
| Richmond, from the Thames | 1 |
| St. Paul's, from Ludgate Hill | 6 |
| Entrance to St. James's Park, Duke of York's Column | 16 |
| In the Green Park | 22 |
| St. Paul's, from the Water | 40 ​ |
| The Terrace, Richmond | 42 |
| North Door of the Abbey | 51 |
| The Abbey, from Victoria Street | 54 |
| Eaton Hall | 61 |
| Chester High Street | 64 |
| The Rows, Chester | 68 |
| Chester Cathedral, West Front | 72 |
| Shrewsbury | 76 |
| Haddon Hall | 77 |
| Lichfield Cathedral | 80 |
| The Three Spires of Lichfield | 82 |
| Warwick Castle | 88 |
| Haddon Hall, from the Road | 91 |
| Lynmouth | 93 |
| A Devonshire Lane | 94 |
| The Norman Towers of Exeter | 98 |
| Porlock Church, Exmoor | 105 |
| The West Front, Wells | 107 |
| The Market-Place, Wells | 112 |
| Salisbury Cathedral | 116 |
| Stonehenge | 118 |
| Glastonbury | 120 |
| The Abbey and Victoria Tower, from St. James' Park | 121 |
| Dark Mysterious London, Near Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster | 126 |
| In St. James's Park | 130 |
| Baker Street | 134 |
| Canterbury, from the Meadows | 140 |
| Rochester Castle | 144 |
| The Cathedral Close, Canterbury | 148 |
| The Nave, Canterbury | 150 |
| The Great Tower, Canterbury | 152 ​ |
| Greenwich Observatory | 153 |
| Piccadilly, near Devonshire House | 156 |
| The Ship, Greenwich | 162 |
| Kensington Gardens | 166 |
| Greenwich Park | 173 |
| Epsom Heath, Derby Day | 175 |
| The Start for the Derby | 180 |
| The Finish of the Derby | 184 |
| On the Downs, Derby Day | 196 |
| Kenilworth | 197 |
| Stratford-on-Avon Church | 208 |
| Charlcote Park | 214 |
| The Hospital, Warwick | 223 |
| Ludlow Castle | 225 |
| Ludlow Castle, from the Moat | 234 |
| Stokesay Castle | 240 |
| Ludlow Tower | 243 |
| Portsmouth Harbor, and "The Victory" | 245 |
| Shanklin | 254 |
| Chichester Cross | 260 |
| Abbey Gateway, Bury St. Edmunds | 264 |
| Trinity Gate, Cambridge | 267 |
| The Workhouse | 269 |
| A Factory Town at Night | 272 |
| A Factory Town | 275 |
| The Parade, Hastings | 277 |
| The Front, Brighton | 280 |
| A Crescent, Hastings | 286 |
| Winchelsea High Street | 287 |
| Rye, from Winchelsea Gate | 290 |
| Rye, from the Winchelsea Road | 296 |
| Rye, from the Marshes | 300 |
| The Sandgate, Rye | 308 ​ |
| A Street in Rye | 315 |
| FitzGerald's House | 317 |
| In Old Suffolk | 326 |
| A Suffolk Common | 330 |
ENGLISH HOURS