23
III. THE PRINCE OF WALES 35
IV. A HISTORIC CROWD 41
V. WITH PEGGOTTY AND HAM 52
VI. TO THOSE ABOUT TO BECOME JOURNALISTS 62
VII. A CINQUE PORT 69
VIII. OYSTERS AND ARCACHON 77
IX. CHRISTMAS EVE AT WATT'S 86
X. NIGHT AND DAY ON THE CARS IN CANADA 100
XI. EASTER ON LES AVANTS 108
XII. THE BATTLE OF MERTHYR 125
XIII. MOSQUITOES AND MONACO 137
XIV. A WRECK IN THE NORTH SEA 145
XV. A PEEP AT AN OLD HOUSE OF COMMONS 152
XVI. SOME PREACHERS I HAVE KNOWN:--
Mr. Moody 170
"Bendigo" 176
"Fiddler Joss" 181
Dean Stanley 184
Dr. Moffat 187
Mr. Spurgeon 190
In the Ragged Church 196

FACES AND PLACES

CHAPTER I.

"FRED" BURNABY

I made the acquaintance of Colonel Fred Burnaby in a balloon. In such
strange quarters, at an altitude of over a thousand feet, commenced a
friendship that for years was one of the pleasantest parts of my life,
and remains one of its most cherished memories.

It was on the 14th of September, 1874. A few weeks earlier two French
aeronauts, a Monsieur and Madame Duruof, making an ascent from Calais,
had been carried out to sea, and dropping into the Channel, had passed
through enough perils to make them a nine days' wonder. Arrangements had
been completed for them to make a fresh ascent from the grounds of the
Crystal Palace, and half London seemed to have gone down to Sydenham to
see them off. I was young and eager then, and having but lately joined
the staff of the _Daily News_ as special correspondent, was burning for
an opportunity to distinguish myself. So I went off to the Crystal
Palace resolved to go up in the balloon.

"No," said Mr. Coxwell, when I asked him if there were a seat to spare
in