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ENGLISH PICTURES

By The Rev. Samuel Manning, LL.D., and The Rev. S. G. Green, D.D.

1889

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PREFACE:

A British nobleman--so runs the story--when travelling in Switzerland
was so impressed by the gloomy grandeur of one of the mountain passes,
that he exclaimed, "Surely there is no other view like this in the world!"

"I am told, my lord," said the guide, "that there is but one,"--naming a
view in the Scottish I lighlands.

"Why," replied the nobleman, "that is on my own estate, and I have never
seen it!"

The anecdote may be doubtful historically, but in idea it is true. _Non
e vero, ma ben trovato_.

The number of Englishmen who really know