Old Charterhouse 251 Doorway, 70, Grosvenor Street 260 Doorway, Painter Stainers’ Hall 262 Extinguishers, Berkeley Square 263 Old Doorway, Whittington’s House 264 Cheyne Walk 267 Old Putney Bridge 273 Hogarth’s House, Chiswick 278 Maid of Honour Row, Richmond 281 Church Row, Hampstead 289 Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace 295 Millais’s Studio 297 Alma Tadema’s Former Studio 299 Herkomer’s Studio 301 INTRODUCTION. The subject of London, old and new, has ever offered a charm and even fascination, attested by the countless works which crowd the shelves of the library. The entries under the word “London” fill nearly a volume of the British Museum catalogue. These old folios and quartos, grey and rusted like the churches and halls they celebrate, have a dilapidated, decayed tone, as though they also wanted “restoring”; and there is a welcome quaintness and sincerity in the style of such antiquaries as Northuck, Strype, Stowe, Pennant, and others, which contrast with the more prosaic tone of the modern handbooks. These old scribes belonged to that amazing and unrequited class, “the county historian”: such were honest, laborious Whitaker and Plot. There is nothing more pathetic than the record of these unselfish enthusiasts, who, after collecting subscriptions and devoting their lives and life-blood to these huge quartos, generally ruined themselves by the venture. Now, long after they have mouldered away, their huge tomes fetch large prices at auction; or some dapper editor of our day re-issues them, with airy notes of his own, taking care to point out the various “blunders” of the poor departed Dryasdust who laboured so faithfully and so modestly.