WEST FRONT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
After a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co., Ltd.
TOLD TO CHILDREN BY
MRS. FREWEN LORD.
WITHVIGNETTE PORTRAIT OF DEAN STANLEY, PLAN OF THE ABBEYAND GENERAL VIEW OF WEST FRONT OF ABBEY.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED,
St. Dunstan’s House,
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
1894.
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
DEAN STANLEY.
From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.
DEDICATED
to the memory of
DEAN STANLEY,
whose walks and talks with children
in Westminster Abbey
can never be effaced from the
grateful recollection of one who as a child
had the happiness of enjoying them.
TALES
FROM
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
A great many years ago, when I was quite asmall child, I was taken with some other childrenover Westminster Abbey by Dean Stanley,who was then the Dean of Westminster.
Some of you may have read a book called“Tom Brown’s School Days,” and if so youwill remember Tom’s great friend, Arthur, whobegan his school life a lonely and home-sicklittle boy, but who as the years went on cameto be looked up to and liked almost more thanany other boy at Rugby. “George Arthur” thisboy is called in the book, but his real name[Pg 6]was Arthur Stanley, and when he grew up hebecame a clergyman, and was for many yearsDean of Westminster. He wrote a great manybooks, and one all about Westminster Abbey;for he knew every corner and part of thisgreat church, and was full of stories about thegreat people who are buried here, and thekings and queens who were crowned here.There was nothing he liked better than takingpeople over the Abbey, and any one who hadthe happiness of going with him, as I did, andof hearing him, would always remember some,at any rate, of the stories he told.
He died in 1881, and as none of you canever see o