York House--Lord Bacon--“To the Man with an Orchard give an Apple”--“Steenie”--Buckingham Street--Zimri--York Stairs--Pepys and Etty--Scenery on the Banks of the Thames--The London Lodging of Peter the Great--The Czar and the Quakers--The Hungerford Family--The Suspension Bridge--Grinling Gibbons--The Two Smiths--Cross Readings--Northumberland Street--Armed Clergymen pp. 126-145 CHAPTER VIII. THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STRAND (FROM TEMPLE BAR TO CHARING CROSS). Faithorne, the Engraver--The Stupendous Arch--The Murder of Miss Ray--One of Wren’s Churches--Thomas Rymer--Dr. Johnson at Church--Shallow’s Revelry--Low Comedy Preachers--New Inn--Alas! poor Yorick!--The first Hackney Coaches--Doyley--The Beef-steak Club--Beef and Liberty--Madame Vestris--Old Thomson--Irene in a Garret--Mathews at the Adelphi--The Bad Points of Mathew’s Acting--The Old Adelphi--A Riot in a Theatre-- Dr. Johnson’s Eccentricities pp. 146-189 CHAPTER IX. CHARING CROSS. The Gunpowder Plot--Lord Herbert’s Chivalry--A Schoolboy Legend--Goldsmith’s Audience--Dobson Buried in a Garret--Charing--Queen Eleanor--A Brave Ending-- Great-hearted Colonel Jones--King Charles at Charing Cross--A Turncoat--A Trick of Curll’s--The Cock Lane Ghost--Savage the Poet--The Mews--The Nelson Column--The Trafalgar Square Fountains--Want of Pictures of the English School--Turner’s Pictures--Mrs. Centlivre of Spring Gardens--Maginn’s Verses--The Hermitage at Charing Cross--Ben Jonson’s Grace--The Promised Land pp. 190-238 CHAPTER X. ST. MARTIN’S LANE. A Certain Proof of Insanity--An Eccentric Character-- Experimentum Crucis--St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields--Gibb’s Opportunity--St. Martin’s Church--Good Company--The Thames Watermen--Copper Holmes--Old Slaughter’s-- Gardelle the Murderer--Hogarth’s Quack--St. Martin’s Lane Academy--Hayman’s Jokes--The Old Watch-house and Stocks--Garrick’s Tricks--An Encourager of Art--John Wilkes--The Royal Society of Literature--The Artist Quarter pp. 239-261 CHAPTER XI. LONG ACRE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. The Plague--Great Queen Street--Burning Panama--Lord Herbert’s Poetry--Kneller’s Vanity--Conway House-- Winchester House--Ryan the Actor--An Eminent Scholar and Antiquary--Miss Pope--The Freemasons’ Hall--Gentleman Lewis--Franklin’s Self-denial--The Gordon Riots--Colonel Cromwell--An Eccentric Poetaster--Black Will’s Rough Repartee--Ned Ward--Prior’s Humble Cell--Stothard--The Mug-houses--Charles Lamb pp. 262-286 CHAPTER XII. DRURY LANE.