and views of localities. Nothing remains, therefore, but to quote that latter-day and somewhat Alexandrine Bathonian, Mr. Cyrus Angelo Bantam of "Pickwick," and bid the reader-who, on this occasion, may fitly be apostrophised as "gentle" "Welcome to Ba-ath!

EALING, September 1904

AUSTIN DOBSON.

CHAP.

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PAGE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. BATH TO THE LAST YEARs of the Seventeenth Century

II. THE KING OF BATH-ORGANISATION OF FASHIONABLE

LIFE (1730-1761)

VII. AUTHORS AT BATH-BATH IN PLAYS AND NOVELS-

SHERIDAN, SMOLLETT, JANE AUSTEN, AND DICKENS

VIII. AUTHORS AT BATH: THE "WATER POETS"; THe Bath-

EASTON PARNASSUS; ANSTEY.

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IX. AUTHORS AT BATH: PRIOR PARK; ITS LITERARY GUESTS
(POPE, WARBURTON, FIELDING), AND OTHER FAMOUS
VISITORS

X. ART AND SCIENCE: THE WOODS, GAINSBorough, Law-
RENCE, HERSCHEL

XI. THE TRANSFORMATION OF BATH IN THE NINETEENTH

Quin

After an original portrait, painted in Italy about 1770

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Ralph Allen

Marshal Wade

From the portrait by a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds

From the picture by Hogarth

From the drawing by William Hoare, R.A.

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