To a Londoner, who cannot help his vice of comparison, George Square is another, and a smaller, Trafalgar Square. To aid the resemblance and confirm the smallness of the scale, here is a column in the centre. Sir Walter Scott, and not Nelson, it is who in effigy occupies the summit. The thing looks as though, with a little judicious watering and careful culture, it might some day grow to be a Nelson column. All around are other statues: equestrian effigies of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; and Colin Campbell, Thomas Campbell, Peel, Livingstone, Sir John Moore, Burns, and others on foot. One side of the Square is occupied by the “City Chambers”: what in England we would term the Town Hall. This is a great pile designed by William Young, architect of the new War Office building in London; and in the same classic renaissance style, with the same old pepper-castor pavilions at either end: the usual small ones (for cayenne) in the middle, and the inevitable pediment and indispensable tower. The cost was £540,000, the building was open in 1888, and this, the third or fourth Glasgow Town Hall, each one in succession larger than its forebear, is already too small. So also is the inconvenient General Post Office building, near by, opened in 1876. In connection with the bronze Valhalla of heroes in George Square, it may be noted that Glasgow is, in general, great in statues and memorials. Probably the most majestic statue of Wellington in existence is that in front of the Exchange, an equestrian effigy by Marochetti. Nelson, on the other hand, is commemorated by a tall obelisk on Glasgow Green. FOOTNOTE: [1] Meat and hire. THE END INDEX Abington. ii. 289 Adlington, i. 340, 346, 347-49 Alvaston, i. 281 Anglezarke Moor, ii. 85 Annan, River, ii. 269, 270, 272 Ardwick Green, i. 352 Arthuret, ii. 212, 214 Ashbourne, i. 76, 87, 306, 308-23 Askham Hall, ii. 172 Bamber Bridge, ii. 89 Bamford, Samuel, i. 51-111 Barnet, i. 56, 111, 119-21 Barnet Fair, i. 116-119 Barrow-on-Soar, i. 248, 253 Bass family (brewers), i. 311 Beattock, ii. 270, 273, 279, 284 Bedford, Dukes of, i. 157-64; ii. 292 Belgrave, i. 246, 251 Blackford, ii. 211 Blackwood, ii. 291 Blore, i. 329 Bollin, River, i. 345 Bollington, i. 345 Bolton, ii. 68-75 Bolton-le-Sands, ii. 132 Bonshaw Tower, ii. 263 Boothby, Penelope, i. 316-18 Boroughbridge, ii. 153-54 Bosley, i. 337 Bothwell, ii. 295 Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, ii. 294 Boughton, i. 198 Boughton Green, i. 198 Brailsford, i. 42, 308 Brandreth, Jeremiah, rebel, i. 89, 291-97 Bright, John, i. 22, 199; ii. 42-5 Brixworth, i. 200-3 Brougham, ii. 163-71 Broughton, near Newport Pagnell, i. 166 Buckstone, The, ii. 133-35 Bullock Smithy (Hazel Grove), i. 83, 350-52 Burton-in-Kendal, ii. 133-37 Calton Moor, i. 329 Carleton, ii. 188 Carlisle, i. 14, ii. 188-207, 214 Carlyle, Thomas, ii. 264-68