To-day he is known as the builder of the round towers of the early Christian centuries, and of the square castles of the Anglo-Normans.

And it was a real delight to them, here in their solitude, to travel so pleasantly over the world, and see sweep past them, shores and havens, mountains, lakes, and rivers, cities, castles, and a hundred other localities which have a name in history.

"She had known and admired queen Elizabeth; she had refused what she deemed an iniquitous award of king James," though urged to submit to it by her first husband, the Earl of Dorset; "She rebuilt her dismantled castles in defiance of Cromwell, and repelled with disdain the interposition of a profligate minister under Charles the Second."

0 6 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne .

To the right lay the open country, broad plains with clumps of woodland, and the towers of castles pricking out from above the groves.

"It may be any one of thirty castles which lie upon the south side of Paris, and within six or seven leagues of it.

The really unique feature of the scenery was the way in which the old castles seemed to grow, rather than to have been built, on the tops of the rocky promontories that showed their heads here and there among the trees.

Instead of jogging along the coast, as many had been accustomed to do, and casting anchor here and there upon sighting signal smokes raised by natives who had slaves to sell, the separate traders began before the close of the colonial period to get their slaves from white factors at the "castles," which were then a relic from the company régime.

A herd-boy on the mountain's brow, I see the castles all below.

Bellinzona is romantically situated, on a slight eminence, with three castles to defend it, with those square turreted towers and battlements, which remind one involuntarily of the days of the Goths and Vandals.

We sat on the bank in the shade, and looked at the chain of hills which rose in the south, following the course of the Po, crowned with castles and villages and shining towers.

Seraglios, divans, bulbuls, Gulistans, Zuleikas, and other oriental properties deluged English poetry for a time, and then subsided; even as the tide of moss-troopers, sorcerers, hermits, and feudal castles had already had its rise and fall.

Walled cities it had, and castles crowned its eminences.

He overlooked, directly, the turrets or Ranec and of Asch; to the south was Nérac; northward showed Perdigon: and the prince of no country owned any finer castles than were these four, in which lived Manuel's servants.

One of the most perfect moated castles in England.] COLCHESTER, ESSEX =How to get there.=Train from Liverpool Street.

Compton Wynyates, the seat of the Marquess of Northampton, is one of the most beautiful Tudor houses in England, and although Warwickshire is exceedingly rich in castles and fine old houses, it can show nothing to surpass this time-worn pile of red brick and stone.

Warwick is a small but historic town, charmingly situated on the River Avon, and dominated by its castle, one of the very few baronial castles still remaining entire.

One of the very few baronial castles still remaining entire.] GLOUCESTER AND ITS CATHEDRAL =How to get there.=Train from Paddington.

An immense boon would be conferred on the cause of Architecture and Archæology by the recovery of Inigo Jones's Sketches and Drawings of Ancient Castles.

The latter were engraved, and published in Webb's volume on Stonehenge; but the Sketches of Castles have never yet been published.

When Burgon was writing his prize-poem about Petra, Lord John Manners (afterwards seventh Duke of Rutland), in his capacity as Poet Laureate of Young England, was writing chivalrous ditties about castles and banners, and merry peasants, and Holy Church.

Those blushing lips may never sing the glories of our line: Our ancient castles echo to the clumsy feet of churls.

About midway up the romantic glen of Cappercullen, near the point where the counties of Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary converge, upon the then sequestered and forest-bound range of the Slieve-Felim hills, there stood, in the reigns of the two earliest Georges, the picturesque and massive remains of one of the finest of the Anglo-Irish castles of Munsterperhaps of Ireland.

Max Dorian (A); 16Nov64; R349367. DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC. Crusader castles.

Sometimes, of a night when he could not sleep, he wondered why it is that one never day-dreams unpleasant obstacles and disheartening failures into one's air castles.