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Answers to Questions on Holiday Resorts

I. Charles and Mary Lamb (The Old Margate Hoy—Essays of Elia).-2. Thomas Nash ("-Lenten- Stuff ").-3. Swanage, Southsea, and Ilfracombe were so-called by Thomas Hardy.-4. Weymouth (Letters of Fanny Burney).-5. Robert Louis Steven- son.-6. Swanage.-7. In 1863, when Queen Alexandra arrived for her marriage with the Prince of Wales.-8. Bledud. In The Pickwick Papers, chap. 36.-9. Louisa Musgrove (Persuasion, chap. 16).-10 (a) Sheridan ; (b) Thomas Barham (c) Charles Dickens.-11. Steyne Gardens, Brighton. (The Netoconses-- Thackeray).-12. "What a beautiful country—how it resembles Porto Ferrajo in Elba ! "-13. "The Holy Headland." The old name was Buriton, i.e., "Castle Town."