Among others here referred to were doubtless =the looking-glasses= over the two chimney-pieces in this gallery. These are particularly fine and worthy of notice. When the restorations were begun last summer, they were literally dropping to pieces, falling in shreds, we might say. The greatest care has been taken to piece the bits together; and to replace the missing portions. Only such patched and added parts have been regilt; the old gilding still remaining almost as bright and untarnished as when these glasses were first put up, two hundred years ago, by Gerard Johnson, cabinet maker, and Robert Streeter, serjeant painter. Honour to their names, as two good old English handicraftsmen, whose honest work thus survives to this day! Over each of the four doors are long richly-carved brackets of oak, similar to those on which rest the looking-glasses over the chimney-pieces. We know from Pyne's drawing in 1818, that these brackets over the doors then still supported looking-glasses, with richly carved frames. Unfortunately, all trace of them has now disappeared. =The chimney-piece= of the first fire-place on the right as you enter the gallery is the original one of Wren's design, of marble streaked and veined blue-grey. The second, of white marble streaked with red, technically known as "Breche-violett-antico," is new--copied from the first. This fire-place was, until last summer, filled with a common cooking range, inserted many years ago for the use of the soldiers, when this gallery was used as a barrack! =The window-sashes= in this gallery are of the charming old-fashioned type, divided by thick, deeply moulded bars, into small rectangular spaces. Through these windows we have a pleasant view eastward of the private gardens of the Palace, and of Kensington Gardens beyond. The dimensions of this gallery are: 88 feet 4 inches long by 22 feet broad by 13 feet 3-1/2 inches high to the top of the cornice, and 17 feet 13 inches high to the highest part of the ceiling. =Pictures in Queen Mary's Gallery. Portraits of the Time of William and Mary to George II.= 1 Queen Mary . . . . . KNELLER. Full-length, standing, in royal robes; her left hand lifting her ermine cloak; her right holding the orb on the table by her side, on which also is the crown on a cushion. In the right distance is seen the parapet of the roof of Wren's building at Hampton Court. This and its companion piece of King William, at the other end of this gallery, were painted by Kneller about 1692, in which year he was knighted. 2 George II. (_718_) . . . . . _By Shackleton, after_ KNELLER. Seated, in robes of the Garter, facing to the left. 3 _Unassigned._ 4 Frederick, Prince of Wales (_619_) . . . . . VANLOO.