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was towed by steamers of various sizes and kinds. As I 

 sped along in the luxurious railway carriage, and noticed 

 the road beside the river turning and twisting along the 

 bank, I could not but think of the changes since the days 

 when all travelling was done by carriages and lumbering 

 diligences. In Moore's ' Life of Byron/ which I used to 

 think such a delightful book, but which now is somewhat 

 sneered at as unfair book-making by Byron biographers, 

 there is a detailed account of the way the rich and great 

 journeyed at the beginning of the century : ' Lord Byron 

 travelled in a huge coach copied from the celebrated one 

 of Napoleon, taken at Genappe, with additions. Besides 

 a lit de repos it contained a library, a plate chest, and 

 every apparatus for dining in it. It was not, however, 

 found sufficiently capacious for his baggage and suite, and 

 he purchased a caleche at Brussels for his servants.' So 

 travelled the man whom Lady Caroline Lamb attempts 

 to describe, in her famous though dull novel of ' Glenavon,' 

 with the motto : 



He left a name to all succeeding times 

 Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes. 



The train sped along and the weather was beautiful. 

 We were not parboiled in the carnages, as they do not 

 warm them before the 1st of November. My friend 

 lived out of Frankfort, on the slopes of the Taunus 

 Mountains, under the towers of the mediaeval Castle 

 of Cronberg. Land is not, I fancy, to be bought in 

 Germany except close to the towns ; all the forests 

 belong to the State, and are not sold. I was surprised to 

 find in this delightful home of my Cronberg friends, in 

 the very kingdom of stoves as we consider Germany, 

 that one of the rooms was warmed by an Irish stove, 

 made by Messrs. Musgrave of Bond Street, exactly like 

 the one I find so invaluable for keeping my own little 



