The Freemasons' Tavern in the chapter on "Public Dinners" does not receive much attention from Dickens. He is describing the public dinner given in aid of the "Indigent Orphans Friends' Benevolent Institution," and no reference beyond the use of the name is made to the building itself. The tavern still stands to-day, and no doubt more glorious in its splendour than it was on the occasion of the public dinner Dickens refers to. It is used to-day for similar purposes, the ceremony and atmosphere at which being little changed from what it was then. It is interesting to note that in the same building a farewell dinner was given Dickens on the eve of his departure for America in 1867, with Lord Lytton in the chair. The chapter devoted to the story of Miss Evans and the Eagle, recalls the notorious tavern immortalised in the famous jingle: Up and down the City Road, In and out the Eagle, That's the way the money goes-- Pop goes the weasel! and the chronicle of Miss Jemima Evans's visit to the highly famed pleasure-resort will contribute more towards retaining the Eagle on the recording tablets of history than the contemporary rhymster's poetic effort. It was in 1825 that the Eagle Tavern turned its saloon into what was the forerunner of the music hall, and was the making of many a well-known singer. It was to this gay spot in London that Mr. Samuel Wilkins took Miss Jemima Evans, with whom he "kept company." They were joined in the Pancras Road by Miss Ivins's lady friend and her young man. We do not attempt to identify the Crown where they stayed on the way to taste some stout, and are content with the knowledge that they reached the rotunda where the concert was held, and to remind our readers of the impression it had on Miss J'mima Ivins and Miss J'mima Ivins's friend, who both exclaimed at once "How 'ev'nly!" when they were fairly inside the gardens. Dickens's description of the place will convey some idea of its splendour: