The Mermaid, which he frequented--with Shakespeare, Fletcher, Herrick, Chapman, and Donne--was in Bread Street, but no trace of it remains; and a banking-house stands now on the site of the Devil Tavern, in Fleet Street, where the Apollo Club, which he founded, used to meet. The famous inscription, "O rare Ben Jonson," is three times cut in the Abbey--once in Poets' Corner and twice in the north aisle where he was buried, the smaller of the two slabs marking the place of his vertical grave. Illustration: "A Bit from Clare Market." Dryden once dwelt in a narrow, dingy, quaint house, in Fetter Lane,--the street in which Dean Swift has placed the home of Gulliver, and where now (1882) the famous Doomsday Book is kept,--but later he removed to a finer dwelling, in Gerrard Street, Soho, which was the scene of his death. Both buildings are marked with mural tablets and neither of them seems to have undergone much change. (The house in Fetter Lane is gone--1891.) Edmund Burke's house, also in Gerrard Street, is a beer-shop; but his memory hallows the place, and an inscription upon it proudly announces that here he lived. Dr. Johnson's house in Gough Square bears likewise a mural tablet, and, standing at its time-worn threshold, the visitor needs no effort of fancy to picture that uncouth figure shambling through the crooked lanes that lead into this queer, sombre, melancholy retreat. In that house he wrote the first Dictionary of the English language and the immortal letter to Lord Chesterfield. In Gough Square lived and died Hugh Kelly, dramatist, author of _The School of Wives_ and _The Man of Reason_, and one of the friends of Goldsmith, at whose burial he was present. The historical antiquarian society that has marked many of the literary shrines of London has rendered a great service. The houses associated with Reynolds and Hogarth, in Leicester Square, Byron, in Holies Street, Benjamin Franklin and Peter the Great, in Craven Street, Campbell, in Duke Street, St. James's, Garrick, in the Adelphi Terrace, Michael Farraday, in Blandford Street, and Mrs. Siddons, in Baker Street, are but a few of the historic spots which are thus commemorated. Much, however, remains to be done. One would like to know, for instance, in which room in "The Albany" it was that Byron wrote _Lara_¹ in which of the houses of Buckingham Street Coleridge had his lodging while he was translating _Wallenstein;_ whereabouts in Bloomsbury Square was the residence of Akenside, who wrote _The Pleasures of Imagination,_ and of Croly, who wrote _Salathiel;_ or where it was that Gray lived, when he established himself close by Russell Square, in order to be one of the first--as he continued to be one of the most constant--students at the then newly opened British Museum (1759).