Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...iconoclastic-among the three historic buildings, now standing, which the great dramatist may have seen. These are the Hall of the Middle Temple, where "Twelfth Night" was first acted, and where one of the benchers took me recently; Crosby Hall, mentioned by Shakspere as Crosby Place, a stately mansion of the fifteenth century, near Bishopsgate, where I remember once some of the officers of the British Museum took me to lunch in the restaurant which has been made of its fine old hall; and this Church of St. Saviour's, with its many dramatic memories, for here also are buried...
...share of attention. An illustrated article is devoted to the Renaissance castles in Touraine, sculptured and turreted and haunted with memories of Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Bretagne, etc. Then a wide step across the Atlantic takes one to far-off Milwaukee where the "Wes tern Mansion" of the late Emil Schandein furnishes the subject for a description by George H. Yenowine. The house is very large, architecturally German renaissance and is considered one of the sights of the "blonde city of the lakes...