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| Old Hall Hotel |
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| Farewell |
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| No mustard |
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| Erica Wagner's Brooklyn Bridge; she was born in New York but lives in London now. |
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| Andrew Marr and John Simpson are well known on BBC news and current affairs programmes. |
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The Beverley Collection at Alnwick Castle by
Claudia Wagner, John Boardman and Diana Scarisbrick
details one of the finest gem collections still in
private hands, the envy of Russia's
Catherine the Great.
And there is my Quest for Mary Magdalene.
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| The London Library has at least two and a half times as many books as the ancient Library of Alexandria is thought to have had. |
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| The London Library's copy of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, first edition 1835. Half slave, half free. |
In America all laws originate more or less from the same idea. The whole of society, so to say, is based on just one fact: everything follows from one underlying principle. One could compare America to a great forest cut through by a large number of roads which all end in the same place. Once you have found the central point, you can see the whole plan in one glance. But in England the roads cross, and you have to follow along each one of them to get a clear idea of the whole.
- Alexis de TocquevilleBut America did have one great contradiction as the map facing the title page of Tocqueville's book shows; half of it relied on slavery, and its consequences remain unresolved to this day.
