by saying: “A few years hence, when the present patches of shrubs shall have become thickets--when the present meagre rows of trees shall have become an umbrageous avenue--and the children now in their nurses’ arms shall have become the parents or grand-sires of future generations--this square may serve to record, that the Art of Landscape Gardening in the beginning of the nineteenth century was not directed by whim or caprice, but founded on a due consideration of utility as well as beauty, without a bigoted adherence to forms and lines, whether straight, or crooked, or serpentine.” Repton always put forth his ideas in high-sounding language, often not so well justified as in the present case. The lime-trees have been allowed to grow taller than he desired, and yet are not fine trees from having at one period been kept trimmed; but they certainly form an attractive addition to the usual design, and looking at them, after nearly a hundred years, from the outside, where they form a background to the statue, the effect in summer is very attractive. Bedford Square is on the gardens of the other great house--Montagu House, built by the Duke of Montagu. Evelyn also notes going to see that. In 1676, “I dined,” he says, “with Mr. Charleton and went to see Mr. Montagu’s new palace near Bloomsbury, built by Mr. Hooke of our Society [the Royal] after the French manner.” This house was burnt down ten years later, and rebuilt with equal magnificence; but when the Duke moved to Montagu House, Whitehall, in 1757, it became the home of the British Museum. The old house was pulled down and the present building erected in 1845. The Square was laid out at the end of the eighteenth century on the gardens and the open fields of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields beyond. Lord Loughborough lived in No. 6, and after him Lord Eldon from 1804 to 1815. At the time of the Gordon Riots in 1780, when Lord Mansfield’s house was plundered, troops were stationed near, and a camp formed in the garden of the British Museum. That garden was also of use when, in March 1815, Lord Eldon’s house in Bedford Square was attacked by a mob, and he was forced to make his escape out of the back into the Museum garden. Of Queen’s Square, built in Queen Anne’s time, but containing a statue of Queen Charlotte, and all the other squares of this district there is little of special interest to record directly connected with their gardens. They all have good trees, and are kept up much in the same style.