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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1896, Page 11

I 1.. I I IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COPY BEAUTIFUI BRITAIN ON YOUR DRAWING-ROOM TABLE. PART SIX jusb issued, containing the following sumptuous bill of fare, and the price is still only SIXPENCE :— 1. WINGFTELD MANOR, near Matlock, in Derbyshire. For tho most part a dismantled ruin, bub still showing clear traces of bhe architecture of the time of Henry VI. Aparb from its historic interest, the view is one of rare beauty. 2. THB BALL-ROOM AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. Generally conniiered tbe finest interior in London. A line illustration of the splendour wibh which the powerful English nobles of the lasb century surrounded thomsolves. 3. PENSHURST PLACE. One of the chief ornaments of tho beautiful Weald of Kent, where lived Sir Philip Sidney, "the diamond of bho Court of Queen Elizabeth," and tho poet of ■« Arcadia," and now the seat of the Earla of de Lisle and Dudley. Penshursb waa mosb successfully restored in the middle of the present century, and the view in the Portfolio, showing as ib does tho quaint old garden, is a charming one. 4. BAMBURGH CASTLE. A noble pile on a rock jutting out from the Northumbrian coast. Thia grand stronghold, once an important Saxon defence, stands like St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, or Mont Orgueil in Jersey, and is for strategic purposes almost aa completely isolated irom the mainland as if it were surrounded by deep sea on all sides. 5. HARD WICK HALL, in Derbyshire. One of the many palaces erected by the famous Bess of Hardwick, who waa the moßb inveterate of buildera in the fruitful time of Queen Elizabeth. 6. WELBECK ABBEY, in Nottinghamshire, near the Derbyshire line. The scab of the Duke of Portland. Ib was here, when the Abbey belonged to the Duke of Newcastle, thab King Charles I. was twice enterbainod—bhe firsb time aba coßb of £4,000, and bhe next at a cost of £14,000. 7. THE QUEEN'S SITTING-ROOM IN WINDSOR CASTLE, the windows of which give upon the Long Walk, is the most home-like apartment in this mosb comfortable of palaces. i 8. BALMORAL CASTLE, for the pasb forty years the Queen's best-loved residence. '-■ The view shows one ot bbc finesb landscapes in all of bhe beautiful Highlands. i 9. THE RIVER NODDER AND WILTON HOUSE. The river, as shown in this plate,' has been diverted from its original channel in order to sweep through the delighbful park in which stauda Wilton House. The house ibeelf 13 seen in bhe background of bhe view, is as picturesque as any in bhe Portfolio. 10. COWDRAY HOUSE, near Midhurst, in Surrey. Founded in the time of Henry VIII., and never fully restored since tho destructive fire at the end of the last century. 11. THE AUDIENCE CHAMBER IN St. JAMES'S PALACE. Sometimes called the Queen's Closet—a small bub very richly-decorated room. 12 CARLISLE CASTLE. Constructed in the corner of the old ramparts of the ancient border city; a fine example of a surviving stronghold of which at leasb some parts date from the Roman occupation. 13. CAMBRIDGE COTTAGE, bhe beautiful little country house on Kew Green. 14 HAM HOUSE, near Richmond, which Horace Walpolo thoughb to be "a hundred miles from anywhere," bub whose successors have found ib to be one of the moat charming residences in the county. 15 BISHAM ABBEY, a lovely photograph of a perfecb specimen of Tudor orchitecfcure. standing on the banks of the Thames, near Marlow. 16. OSBORNE HOUSE, the Queen's modern palace in the Isle of Wight. Parts I to V can still be had. The work is to bo completed in 12 parts. Postage of each number, 2d. The whole work sent posb free for Bs, or beautiful bound cloth, 10s 6d ; 'half leather, 12s. Poatage, 2s. To be had from all News Agenbs, or from bhe Wholesale Agent, R. SPRBOKLEY, NEXT THE* POST OFFICE, AUCKLAND.