In the centre of our view, looking affably down on its two-gabled neighbour, is a bold and substantial building of white freestone, erected in 1837, on the site of an older and more picturesque house. This is the business retreat of _our publisher_, and by the same token the oldest book establishment in the city. Here are procurable, in almost endless variety, Guides to Chester and North Wales, local prints, books of views, &c. to suit every imaginable taste and requirement. Perhaps no city in the empire has been so fully and faithfully illustrated as Chester,—Prout, Cuitt, Pickering, Sumners, and others equally celebrated in the walks of art, have plied their pencils in its honour, while the genius of the engraver and the enterprise of the publisher have given permanence to their works. The other house depicted upon the right of our view, its front bearing the arms of the Apothecaries’ Company, is the well-known establishment of MR. J. D. FARRER, Chemist. “Farrer’s Cestrian Bouquet” and “Floral Extract” are perfumes too well known to the fair _élite_ of Chester to need more than a passing notice here. Strangers and visitors, however, will thank us for the hint that these, and other like gems of the toilet, fragrant mementos of “rare old Chester,” are “prepared and sold only by Mr. Farrer.” [Picture: East Gate Row] Opposite to these premises stands the parish CHURCH OF ST. PETER, the site of which is supposed to have been also that of the Roman _Prœtorium_. Tradition ascribes the first building of this church to that Mercian celebrity, the Countess Ethelfleda, who raised an edifice in the centre of the city to the mutual honour of St. Peter and St. Paul. These two saints had, up to that time, presided over the destinies of the mother church of Chester, now the Cathedral, but a ‘new light’ having sprung up in the person of the virgin-wife, St. Werburgh, the two aforesaid apostles were relieved of their charge, and a new Church erected and dedicated to them on the spot we are now surveying. Bradshaw the monk, from whose quaint historic poem we have already quoted, thus records the translation:— And the olde churche of Peter and of Paule By a generall counsell of the spiritualte, With helpe of the Duke moost principall, Was translate to the myddes of the sayd cite, Where a paresshe churche was edified truele In honour of the aforesaid apostoles twayne, Whiche shall for ever by grace divine remayne.