Excerpt from The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: English and American A Section of the Poets' Corner Pig]; Sir Henry Irving' 3 Production of M uch Ado 217 An English Village Today 220 Chronological Chart 232 - 3 Interior of an old-fashioned New England Church 245 New England Stage and Turnpike of a Century Ago 252 A Colonial Residence (mt. Vernon) 255 Southern Slave Quarters 257 A Mississippi River Town 261 Costume, 1836 265 A Pioneer Emigrant Train 268 Costume, 1858 283 Walter Hampden's Production of Hamlet 293 A Western Round -up 314 Elizabethan Costume 332 Ground Plan of a Cathedral 339 Exterior of a Medieval Cathedral 343 Interior of a Cathedral. 343 Simplified Map of London Toclay 360 - 1 Literary Map of England 392 - 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.