The Story of Westminster Abbey

dy," to quote his house-master, his parents had taken him with them for a time, making a long journey first. When he came home to go to Eton, I f

cess of the experiment on that score, while it was evident that his acti

I could always learn things by seeing them!" As the Christmas holidays had to be spent in London, I took Geoffrey at his word, and one morning we wander

is just a book about English history right from the very beginning; and please I want you to write it all do

bjections, and here is his view of the matter, impart

bbey, because it partly belongs to them. I am afraid I can't explain it very well, but what I mean is that now I have learned so many new things about the Abbey, I feel as if I understood ever so much more about history; not the dates and the Acts of Parliament and the dull parts, but the kings and the queens, and the important men who really li

nd girls besides those across the seas, and possibly some grown-up people too, who would learn to better know and love the Abbey, w

any events have of necessity been crowded into a few lines, when a few chapters would not have done them justice, while I plead guilty to having dwelt at greater length on some names than is perhaps warranted by their actual position in history. Broadly speaking, my desire has been, firstly, to consider the Abbey as including th

for both of us in our different ways are hero-w

place to the boys and girls of the Empire, if it helps, in the words of Matthew of Paris, "to keep alive the memory of the good in the past generati

Abbey" (1818), and portions of the Chronicles, Matthew of Paris, Froissard, and Stowe. Among modern works Dean Stanley's "Memorials" easily takes the first place, as much for the charm of its style as for its general value and admirable classification; and

time without this excellent little work, and I gratefully acknowledge the assistance it has been to me. I must also include the "Annals of Westminster Abbey

d histories, especially to Freeman's "Norman Conquest," and to those most u

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