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WEA the young Prince's council chamber for the Duchy of Corn- wall, which is known to have been in Fleet Street, and the Prince of Wales's Feathers and initials P.H."-Prince Henry on the beautiful plaster ceiling, support the heiief. That is, perhapa, as Of twenty people who come to make rich a plaster ceiling of the time as has survived. The original o panelling their first exploration of the City proband carved pilasters which cover one ably nineteen enter by Temple Bar-which will also indients an ornate room. There long memories recalls as an actual stone was in this building, we know, the gateway, but today, is an imaginary ob- Prince's Armus tavern, but it is dificult
believe that a room so finely propori, struction. That is to say, they come from tinned and ornamented can have had so the west. It opens, this gate to London mean an origin. City that you must find în imagination, Fleet Street bas much else to show to direct into Fleet Street, and to all the anyone who will linger for an hour or world and that charming lady, his wife, so in ita byways. If the Almonry at Fleet Street is the metropolis of the Westminster inay claim Caxton, still with newspapers. Their gilt signa are on every the one exception of that great figure, house-front; the great offices stand out all who have built up the industry of, conspicuous; and the royager set down English printing have laboured on this here would be justified in assuming that spot. Tis fc printing press: I have Fleet Street began with newspapers, above recalled; and in Bolt-court, Fleet SHANGEAL lives wholly by them, and will end with |Street, was devised, perfected, and put to use & century ago the first printing For a corrective would gently elbow machine. It is curious to recall that the him into the Temple. It is a magical chief obstacle to be overcome was found, MANILA chance. Well I recall a young American not in the mechanism at cog-wheel and lady who, on her first visit to London platen and cylinder, and the niceties of last summer, had been sent to me to show unpression, but in the device which to her Fleet Street, and her amaiement. We ourselves wems na sitaple-the ink-roller. surveyed the signs and the shops, the lines Hitherto the inking of type had been BORNEO of motor omnibuses pouring by, the mor- done by soft cloth dabbers" operated i ing activities of the busy highway, and by hand. In Rolt-court, which has this in half a dozen steps down Inner Temple fame, De. Samuel Johnson died, and not lane we were back in the atmosphere and many steps away, in Gough-square, the TIENTSIN quies of as many centuries. We've no stands the last survivor of his many thing like this in New York; wish we homes about Fleet Street. By the libe- RANGKOK had!" was her first exclamation. Can rality of Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, it has I live here was a question, The Nor- been saved when the housebreaker's "pick- man Round Church lifted its conical roof was about to descend upon it, and without any low of its skyward. We stopped to. admire Great converted,
a Johnson Elizabeth's Middle Temple Hall, wherein domestic character, into Shakespeare'*"Twelfth Night was Muscum to which public visitors are
Mrs. "Rowe, who is played in the dramatist's lifetime, linger welcomed.
them.
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ed in the collegiate squares, looked over encylovadia of Johnsonian lore, will the trim lawns and flowering gardens to show The English Dictionary," and and The Rambiar," all the river distantly flowing hy, and in" Rasselis,
the church we saw the likeness of het works that came from Johnson's pen in Street's real inhabitant.
the busy years of his life there.
GREAT MEN OF LITERATURE.
The Record Office
And I Bave left till last the greatest treasure house of all. The Public Record five stands in Chancery-lane, not a han- dred yards distant from the corner.. Therein is stored on fireproof Boors Eng- land's history from Norman times in original parchments Museum is open to the public fres on any week-day afternoon save Saturday. be tween the hours of two and four. Amid documents of priceless historical import- ace and value, openly displayed, you find, under glass, the Domestay Book, the writing almost as fresh and black and distinct as if its penmanshap were of yesterday. It is the Conqueror's great surver of all the occupied lands of Eng- land. made and completed in the year 1080, but from which, to our unending regret, be excepted London.
The cross-legged Templars lying there in figy, Crusaders if you will-what had these mailed knights to do with the street of the newspapers, which are, indeed, the shings of yesterday! In that fragment of God's acre about the church we read on a coped stone the lime, simple but wholly adequate,...
"Here lies Oliver Goldsmith" and but a stone's throw Away 1 pointed out the chambers in Brickcourt wherein had closed the poet's thriftless, somewhat saddened, yet invaln able life. He stands late, but no means jast, in a long line of literary men who have made a home and fame in Fleet Street John Milton by St. Bride's Church; Lovelace, who give us that im mortal lyric, To Althea from Prison." dying in a squalid lodging in Gun- powder-ally. Shoe-lane; Charles Lamb, whow birthplace stands in Crown Office row, Temple: Dr. Johnson, pervading the THE whole street: Richardson, writing his interminable novels in Salisbury-square; Samuel Butler, in Clifford's Inn-these are some of Fleet Street's residents. On the street's south side, where Barclay's new bank premises have just risen, Wynkyn de Worde," Caxton's old assist ant, in the year 1501 put up the first hand-screw printing press in London City. Round the corner, where to-day a tablet on a house-front marks the site, Samuel Pepys, the diarist, was born.
SCENE OF A BRUTAL
MURDER.
GOVERNMENT COLLECTING THE ENTERTAINMENT ·TAX.
Thousands
of Enstbourne holiday makers have been taking trips in motor cars and char-abanes to the bungalow at the Crumbles where, Emily Kaye was murdered, says a wire of July 4th. They Faid one shilling each for admission to It is the juxtaposition of this old life the cottage, and of that amount the of the ancient city, so constantly recalled, Government received two-pence for enter- and ita quiet backwaters which have but tainment tax, the remainder being shared little changed in the passing centuries, hetween the owner of the house and a with the busy activities of today that neighbour, who acted as a guide. The makes the heart of London unique among surroundings of the bungalow have ba the world's commercial capitala. Nowhere come like those of a fair, with ice cream is it better shown than in Fleet Street. stalls, etc. The owner of the premises Cross to the north side, between Fetter said that he was forced to admit members Lane and Chancery Lane, and a few steps of the public to the cottage, as hundreds up a foot-passage bring you iuto of persons surrounded the place, threaten- Clifford's Inn, an erstwhile Inn of Chauing to break into it unless they were
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the law, where young students spent some he had decided not to admit any more time and learnt their legal alphabet besightseers to the hungalow.
fore passing to the more important Inns of Coart. like the Temple. Clifford's lun to-day is not as I have known it, for the destroyer has been busy hacking down buildings, and its pleasant little garden. is still covered with war-time sheds. The Great Fire of London in 1666 burnt by, Look around and took one house only. you. It is most interesting group of brick buildings of a bygone age, all of which were standing which London weat up in same, and these have escaped a like. fate but by a few feet. The youngest among them have come down from the time of King Charles II and many are earlier. within than as seen from without, the judges sat to decide disputed claims after London's catastrophe by fire. Here, too, is the last of the old colible-stone pavas ment that in an earlier, age was commán to all London. In Crane-court" and Racquet-court, both on the north side of Fleet Street, you find other houses of London's rebuilding immediately after the Great Fire, which have stood for two and a half centuries.
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