Blenheim Park - Stratford-on-Avon XV. IN THE CENTRAL PART OF ENGLAND Warwick Castle - Kenilworth Castle - Coventry - Rugby — Dr. Arnold's Home - Black Country - Vale of Cromford - On the Moors -- LANGUAGE LESSON. Scene at Grange - Furness Abbey - English Lake Dis- trict Lake Country - Windermere Grasmere Words- Liver- Landing-Stage - Alexander Dock Commercial City - Enclosed Dock Chester Cathedral- Eaton Hall Hawarden – Birmingham - A GEOGRAPHI- Tavistock - Cornwall Old Lizard Head St. Michael's XIX. NORWAY, - PLACES AND PEOPLE. Trondhjem - Route in Norway, etc. - North Cape - Ham- merfest Tromsoe - Fish Drying - The Laplander - A The Government - Nihilists - Czar of Russia - Kronstadt — Neva River - St. Petersburg - Drinking Tea — St. Isaac A Russian Village - Moujik - The Kremlin - St. Basil's "I HAVE a delightful surprise for you," said Mr. Cartmell one evening in early April, as the family gathered around the pleasant wood fire in the library, which the belated spring made extremely agreeable. "What is it, papa ?" chorused the children. Mrs. Cartmell smiled brightly. "I know! I know!" cried Florence; "you are going to take us all to Europe." "You "You are a witch indeed!" laughed Mr. Cartmell. find out all my secrets. I see that I may as well tell you at once. You are right. I have arranged for an extensive European tour, and we shall leave New York in May. Mamma must set about her preparations at once. As for you children, I shall expect an immense amount of studying for the next few weeks. Miss Gray will have her hands full, I am sure." From this time on everything was bustle in the Cartmell home. As this was to be longest journey yet undertaken by the family, there were countless arrangements to be made before leaving. Finally everything was in order, even to the careful pack ing of the camera; and on a beautiful day in late May, the family found themselves on the docks in New York, ready for sailing. Mr. Cartmell had taken passage on one of the swiftest Atlantic liners to Liverpool, in order that the children might become familiar with the latest remarkable feats accomplished in steamship architecture and equipment. As the giant craft lay alongside the dock, it afforded a good opportunity to compare her length with objects on shore. Her exact measurement was 620 feet, nearly an eighth of a mile. As the sailing-hour approached, the scene on the dock became more and more animated. Heavy drays loaded with merchandise hurried to discharge at the different gangways, where huge cranes were rapidly swinging the last of the cargo on board. Mail-wagons, with hundreds of sacks of European mail-matter, carriages filled with travellers and weighted |