LECTURES AND ESSAYS

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

MR. SIDNEY GIBSON'S WORKS.

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TYNEMOUTH.

VISITS TO NORTHUMBRIAN CHURCHES AND CASTLES. (First Series). DILSTON HALL AND BAMBURGH CASTLE. (Second Series of " Visits "). NAWORTH AND CORBY CASTLES, HARTLEPOOL AND DURHAM.

THE CERTAINTIES OF GEOLOGY.

MARVELS OF THE GLOBE-TWO LECTURES.

MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS-A LECTURE.

THE ANTIQUITIES OF HIGHGATE-A PRIZE ESSAY.

ESSAY ON THE FILIAL DUTIES.

ON SOME ANCIENT MODES OF TRIAL.

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LECTURES AND ESSAYS

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS,

HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND ARTISTIC.

BY WM. SIDNEY GIBSON, ESQ.

M.A., F.S.A., F.G.S.; BARRISTER-AT-LAW;

HON. MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, ARTS, ET BELLES LETTRES, DE DIJON;
OF THE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY OF ST. ALBAN'S, ETC.

LONDON LONGMANS AND CO.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE: ROBERT ROBINSON.

1858.

270. a 25.

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CONTENTS.

Lecture on Poetry and the Fine Arts: their affinities and powers
Leaves from Old Trees: an Essay, comprising notices of trees re-

markable for age, magnitude, or associations

PAGE

1

47

The Origin and Present State of the Inns of Court
Lecture on Historians and Literature in the Middle Ages

New Lights in History-a Review of Mr. Froude's History of

England.

117

The Antiquity of the Bell, with notices of some remarkable Church
Bells: an Essay .

The Stone of Destiny.

The Black Rood of Scotland

Curiosities of the Number Seven

Londiniana: an Essay on London, Past and Present

133

172

179

183

193

Notices relating to Arundel House, and the Dispersion of the

On the Northumberland Cabinet of Roman Family Coins—a Review