Identifier: travelsineuropea00bolt (find matches)
Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t are elaborate Gothicscreens, chimney pieces and niches, filled with war-riors clad in belted mail. This grand entrance hall prepares one for thesplendor beyond. Beneath an arch you pass alongthe Great Corridor, a picture gallery 500 feet inlength, to the Domestic Chapel, where events inthe life of our Lord are seen recorded in stainedglass, in painting, and in stone. The banqueting room is a combination of deli-cate tracery in the ceiling, with walls of maroonand gold. Paintings and statuary by famous art-ists, immense mirrors, and three handsome mahog-ony sideboards add their beauty. The library andthe drawing room are spacious and elegant, thewalls being hung with rich damask. Paintings,supcb vases and works of art are on every hand.In the library stands a carved mahogony organ,and oaken cases filled with the treasures of ancientand modern literature. In the State Bed-Room is shown the carvedmahogony state-bed, where Her Majesty of Eng-land, and other distinguished personages have
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ALEXANDRA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. TRAVELS, 37 rested. The Salon is a superb room, and above itsoctagonal walls rises a splendid dome, which is richand chaste in decorative art. You never tire of thefretwork of crimson, blue and gold mosaic on thewalls, that reminds one of the Ambassadors Courtin the Alhambra. The private rooms of Lord andLady Westminster are not exhibited to strangers.The scenes within Eaton Hall are rivalled only bythe views without; the verdant terraces, lawns, gar-dens, fairy lake, groves, the crystal conservatory,statuary and fountains, and Roman altar dedicatedto the Nymphs. We drove for two miles through the grandest ofparks, and left Eaton Hall by the Grosvenor Gate.By half past five oclock we had reached the prettycountry seat of the H s. Unfortunately, young H s father and mother were absent spending a few days at the charmingWelsh watering place, Llandudno, so the dutiesof entertaining us fell upon his sister, Cecil. Whenshe had given orders for dinner, Cecil andtravelsineuropea00bolt

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