Where Ghosts Walk; the Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature Kindle Edition

This book was published in 1910.Contents:I. — "Little Boy Blue" II. — The Ladies of LlangollenIII. — Charles First in Westminster HallIV. — Sir Philip Sidney at Penshurst V. — Among Historic Chateaux VI. — Joan of Arc at ChinonVII. — Josephine at Malmaison VIII. — Amy Robsart at Cumnor Place IX. — Salisbury Plain and StonehengeX. — Gentle George Herbert at Bemerton XL — Marie Stuart at AmboiseThe clever author of " Colonial Homesteads " has utilized her experiences in Europe and her literary training for the preparation of a series of papers devoted to certain historic places with which are to be connected the names of characters familiar in history and in literature. Mrs. Terhune's descriptions are in each case the result of personal observation.****.......summary from the Publishers Weekly, Volume 54Book experts:JOAN OF ARC AT CHINON " In all she did, except in affairs of war, she was a very simple young girl ; but for warlike things — bearing the lance, as- sembling an army, ordering military operations, directing artillery — she was most skilful. Every one wondered that she could act with as much wisdom and foresight as a captain who had fought for twenty or thirty years. It was above all in making use of artillery that she was so wonderful." We are standing by the broken parapet, surveying the panorama of river, plain, hill, and town, when a solution of her military success is offered. "It was a superstitious age," says the grave youth. "The apparition of the armed Maid, flaunting her consecrated banner, was a direct promise from Heaven to the French, a portent of dread to the equally superstitious English. The one army attacked with confidence in divine assistance. It was like ' the going in the top of the mulberry trees' to the people chosen by God to rout the Philistines.SALISBURY PLAIN AND STONE- HENGE The poseur is rarely honest even to himself. And your traveller, or tourist, or " tripper" — a bit of Eng- lish slang we have picked up on this side — is usually more or less of a poseur. With this in mind we entered into a solemn pact not to pose to one another, while walking with the Ghosts who make scene and town and homestead storied. When, therefore, we found ourselves domiciled, for a week-end and two days over, in the White Hart, Salisbury, each made no secret of what had drawn him or her thither. Two said boldly—' ' Stonehenge. ' ' One of the twain had a story of a traveller of a date when tours were unheard-of luxuries, and the "tripper" was a thou- sand years in abeyance. "A wander wit of Wiltshire, rambling to Rome, to gaze at antiquities, and there screwing himself into the company of antiquarians, they entreated him to il- lustrate unto them that famous monu- ment in his country called 'Stonage.' His answer was that he had never seen it. Whereupon they kicked him out-of- doors, and bade him go home and see Stonage." Read more