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Rh 'done' in England only our cathedrals and their cities.

"Landing at Liverpool, the succession of the churches is merely changed by beginning at Chester and ending with Durham.

"For American women of the best class to travel over this route alone or with their daughters has become recognized in America as so customary and proper—if not positively necessary—that we have heard that Americans speak of this preference of their ladies as the 'cathedral habit'; and we have often clipped from American newspapers irreverent allusions to the travellers on our 'cathedral circuit.'

"That they should travel thus unattended is an undoubted compliment from our fair visitors, still we cannot view with entire complacency the carelessness and recklessness in money matters which has, not unnaturally, accompanied the increasing sense of security in our cathedral towns.

"For here at Ely, as at many other of our 20