lover. Another tomb shows a warrior behind his shield. The sculpture is sunk into the stone, instead of the figure being raised in relief.

The walls of the abbey are still standing, and there is a very beautiful chapter house almost entire. It is quite a rambling ruin, with fascinating little accidental spots of picturesque value. In its palmy days the abbots are said to have dined off "four courses a day, on silver dishes, and drinking claret." Henry VIII changed all that!

an inscription:

On the little rose window is "Abbot Adam did this work. May he rest in happy peace. Amen." In the Abbey close is an old spring, which still yields fine clear water. The "Friday" fish-pond, sedgy and picturesque, may still be seen at the back of the buildings. The view of the ruins from the opposite side, reflected in this pool, is very effective.

Chirk Castle may be visited from Llangollen, and it has several historic associations of considerable interest. I myself have only seen it from the train, which affords simply a glimpse such as is recorded by Churchyard:

"A castle fair appeared to sight of eye,

Whose walls were great and towers both large and high."

This is hardly less curt than the mention of it by Dr. Johnson, in his "Diary of a Tour in Wales: ""We came to Chirk Castle." This is all that the learned doctor has to say upon the subject. Dr. Johnson did not like Leland's "Tour in Wales." He said "I looked in Leland. An unpleasant book of mere hints." I don't know that Leland could be accused of mere hints" with any more justice than Dr. Johnson himself!

At the very mouth of the Dee lies Chester. The cathedral, a shade too red to be called strictly hoary, is rather an impressive structure. One of the things which pleases Americans in Chester Cathedral is to see those battle flags which went to Bunker Hill, and now hang in the south transept.

As Henry James says: "An American strolling in the streets of Chester finds a perfect feast of crookedness." Then there are the "rows," a unique feature of this city. They are a set of little shopping streets "up one flight" so to speak they are galleries running through the first stories of the buildings, and, I am told, were originally planned with a view to being more easily protected in times of siege or riot than shops on the actual street level. James characterizes them as: "An ar