houses eastward" of which "the Great Fire of 1666 stopped.” Opposite the lanes and the church just mentioned are the entrances to the Temple, one beneath No. 17 (mentioned on page 414), "by a gateway built 5th James I.," to the Inner Temple; and another of brick and stone, built by Wren, to the Middle Temple. In the former is the house where Pope and Warburton first met, and "at No. I lived Dr. Johnson from 1760 to 1765; the door-case is inscribed 'Dr. Johnson's staircase.'" At the foot of a lane within this entrance is the magnificent doorway of the Temple Church (mentioned in "Ivanhoe," page 360). It is difficult to help thinking, more than is possible while making this sketch, about the beauty or the quaintness of this church, or of the Libraries and Halls of The Temple, and of their interesting personal associations with Knights of the Temple and of St. John, with statesmen, and with poets, dramatists, and other authors, whose numerous memories invest the place. Every one who reads can find here the haunt of a friend.

On the same side of Fleet Street, farther east, is Mitre Court, with the Mitre Tavern, a favorite resort of Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, and Boswell, where the Tour to the Hebrides was planned, and where the Royal Society Club dined. This society, from 1710 to 1782, held its more scientific meetings in Crane Court, on the opposite side of Fleet Street, during many of these years, under the presidency of Sir Isaac Newton. Just beyond the latter court is Bolt Court, where at No. 8 Dr. Johnson "lived from 1776 till his death in 1784." In the same court Cobbett produced some of his political works. Farther east, and also on the north side of the street, is Fetter Lane, noted as the place of residence of the revolutionary leather-seller, "Praise-God-Barebones," and his brother, whose long compound name— -a specimen of the impious slang of his party was popularly and, it is probable, truthfully contracted to "Damned Barebones." Near the house of these worthies was, more recently, that of Mrs. Brownrigg, who brutally murdered her apprentice. Parallel to Fetter, is Shoe Lane, "a narrow and dirty avenue leading to Holborn Hill," that, at the time of Nigel, crossed a half rural district. Near it, Sir Richard Lovelace, the cavalier poet, described to have been "the most amiable and beautiful person that eyes ever beheld," died in poverty and misery during 1658. In 1749, another poet, Richard Boyce, died near here, wretchedly poor; and at the upper end, in the same sad condition, that marvel

lous boy of Bristol, Thomas Chatterton, died and was buried. On the south side of Fleet Street, between the two lanes, is Bouverie Street, leading to "Alsatia ;" and, a little east of this, Salisbury Square, where Richardson wrote "Pamela," and received distinguished visitors. At No. 76 Fleet Street he printed his own novels.

And this district, crowded with memories of those who although dead yet live, is only a single small portion of this wonderful old London!

Scenes both of the "Fortunes of Nigel" and of "Peveril of the Peak" are laid in the Tower of London, but they do not render that famous place a very prominent object in the stories, or in the lands of Scott. Visitors to the Beauchamp Tower (a portion of the great fortress) can fancy it to have been the prison of the Peverils or of Lord Nigel. Localities in and near London associated with "The Heart of Mid-Lothian" are mentioned on page 273; and others, with "Kenilworth," on page 394.

SCOTT'S LONDON, or most of it, is west of Temple Bar. A walk in that direction, from the district already described, along the Strand, or the new Thames Embankment and Whitehall, may, in an hour or two, enable an explorer to see nearly all the metropolitan localities associated with his works, chiefly with "Peveril of the Peak" and "The Fortunes of Nigel." The places and objects (mentioned on page 376) once scenes of portions of the action of the former, could hardly be recognized now by the actors. The Savoy, visited by Julian Peveril, was a large embattled structure between the Strand and the river, west of Waterloo Bridge. At the time of the story it was ruinous; now, only its Perpendicular chapel, more than once restored, remains. Farther west, by the embankment, and formerly close to the river, is Inigo Jones's water-gate, the only vestige of York House, the residence of the Duke of Buckingham, whose character Dryden tersely and severely described, whose position was brilliant during the reign of Charles II., and whose portrait by Scott in "Peveril of the Peak" is a masterpiece. At Charing Cross is Northumberland House, mentioned in the same story, and an imposing example of the town mansions of the great noblemen during the seventeenth century. Whitehall and the Banqueting House, both now well known and stately, are entirely changed from the condition they presented to some of Scott's characters.

The same remark applies to Westminster, - except to its Abbeychurch. This edifice, surpassed in interest by no other on earth, has, however, scarcely an association with Scott or with his creations, except that a few of the persons whom he has represented are supposed to have seen it as we see it. North-west of the Abbey is St. James Park, now a grand and beautiful garden, with a great avenue and imposing terraces. In the seventeenth century "it was little more than a nursery for deer," but in it appeared some of the persons highest in rank in "The Fortunes of Nigel." In it Lord Nigel drew his sword upon Lord Dalgarno, and thence fled to "Alsatia." (In Greenwich Park, it may be added, he encountered King James and the Duke of Buckingham, who bore the royal favor, and the title "Steenie" that it conferred.) In St. James Park Fenella led Julian Peveril to the presence of Charles the Second.

The places in London rendered interesting by personal associations with Scott are in the north-western quarter of the city. On this side of St. James Park stood Carlton House, where he dined, more than once, "merrily" with the Prince Regent. In the same direction, and adjoining this park, is the Green Park, broad and grassy, bounded on the north by Piccadilly, on the corner of which and the west side of Whitehorse Street, was a "bay-fronted house," commanding "a fine open prospect" over the latter. This was the home of M. Charles Dumèrgue, a superior man, “surgeon dentist to the royal family," and an intimate friend of Lady Scott's family. This continued to be Sir Walter's established headquarters during his visits in London from 1803 (when he was in town, accompanied by his wife) until one of his own children—his eldest daughter, Mrs. Lockhart was established in the city, at No. 24 Sussex Place, on the south-west side of Regent's Park, -—an area of four hundred acres newly laid out in his time, and then, as now, a charming place. On the 17th October, 1826, an entry in his journal is recorded at "25 Pall-Mall." During his last visit to London, after his return for the last time from the Continent, he was established at the St. James Hotel, Jermyn Street, yet standing, the writer thinks, No. 76. Sir Walter reached it "about six o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, the 13th June," 1832. He had arrived so unexpectedly that it was apprehended that his daughter might not be prepared to receive his party at her house, and consequently apartments were taken at this. Here, in a second story back room,