YORK. (1) 



Queen Margaret : — " Welcome, my Lord, to this brave town of 

 York. "-K. Henry VI, pt. 3, Scene 2. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



When last we met in these rooms, you were kind 

 enough to accompany me in a rapid excursion through 

 Edinburgh, the beautiful, the land of Scott and Burns, 

 of ill-starred Queen Mary, of stern John Knox. We 

 then committed ourselves to the well known mercies of 

 the English channel, from New Haven to Dieppe, the 

 busy little sea-port, once dear to Jacques Cartier ; we 

 next rambled round the Manchester of France, thrifty, 

 antique Eouen ; finally, if you recollect, we settled 

 down to a Norman luncheon, at Pitres, near Rouen. 



We shall now with your permission retrace our steps 

 to Albion's shores " the land of the Brave and the 

 Eree," and take train for the classic, historical cathedral 

 town of York ; though before entering it you will allow 

 me to say a few words of that Eden of England, the 

 lakeland of Cumberland and Westmoreland. 



In visiting Britain it is there you must go, in order 

 to woe nature in some of her coyest, most seductive, 

 most tender aspects. What a contrast for one, 

 fresh from the festive woods, singing waterfalls, tran- 

 quil, moonlit lakes of Cumberland, to go and contem- 

 plate the solemn grandeur of York Minster, to feel the 

 hushed, death-like silence of its sombre crypt, to 



(1) The portion of this address relating to York was 

 delivered on the 21st December, 1881. 



