Kew, like the other parks, had its royal origin. Its founder was the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the wife of Frederick Prince of Wales, who, eight years after her husband’s death, interested herself in the laying out of the exotic garden at Kew that was the nucleus of the vast collection of 24,000 different varieties of plants. Kew has always been beloved by artists. Sir Peter Lely had a house at Kew Green and Johann Zoffany the painter, whose fame has so lately been augmented by the publication of his life and memoirs, lived in Zoffany House at Strand-on-the-Green, a delightful old-world riverside village close to Kew Bridge. He is buried in the early eighteenth-century church of St. Ann, where Gainsborough also lies. And now come back to London and I will show you a Lilliputian park I am sure you have never noticed. It is so tiny; long ago it was the churchyard of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, dedicated to that kindly patron of all travellers, but now it is a charming retreat with an additional attraction that I leave you to discover, and because it is so close to the General Post Office it is always called The Postman’s Park. There are other lovely unnoticed oases of green round about London town; Brockwell Park with its fine old walled garden, and Dulwich and Southwark. Their tales must wait for another time, for now it only remains for me to say with Pope: Dear, damn’d, distracting town, farewell. INDEX “Achilles” Statue, 199, 200 “Adam and Eve” public-house, 184 Adam, the brothers, 48, 49 Addison, 10, 25, 109, 156, 168 Adelphi, 48, 49 Admiralty, old home of, 76 Albert Memorial, 204 Albert, Prince, 200 All Hallows, Barking, 73, 74 Anne, Queen, 124, 135 Apothecaries’ Society, 18 Ascham, Roger, 115 Ashburnham House, 169 Augusta, Princess, 200, 215 Bacon, Sir Francis, 107, 113, 156 Barking, Convent of, 74 Battersea Manor, 213 Baxter, 135 Bedford, Duke of, 34 _Beggar’s Opera_, 114, 122 Bells of St. Clement’s, 50, 53, 54 Bess of Hardwicke, 8 Bible, revisers of, 167 Birdcage Walk, 210 Black Prince, 24, 56, 86 Blackstone, 60 Blake, Admiral, 170 Blake, William, 213 Bolingbroke, Lord, 213 Bond, Sir Thomas, 27 Boniface, Archbishop, 142, 144 Botanic Gardens, Royal, 211 Bracegirdle, Mrs., 168 Brompton Road, 25 Brooke, Rupert, MS. of, 178 Browne, William, 7 Brummell, Beau, 34 Buckingham, Dukes of, 43, 44 Buckingham Street, 42-46 Buns and Bunhill Place, 14 Burke, 36 Burney, Dr., 10 Burney, Fanny, 10, 121, 215 Butler, Samuel, 136 Campbell, Lady Caroline, 199 Campbell, Thomas, 122 Caroline, Queen, 200, 204, 210 Carthusian Monks, 151, 152 Catherine of Braganza, 11, 18 Cellini, Benvenuto, 133 Charing Cross, 40-42, 158 Charles I., 210; statue of, 41, 160, 196 Charles II., 9, 13, 83, 96, 116, 128, 129, 139, 198, 200, 209, 210 Charlotte, Queen, 34, 215 Charterhouse: as mansion, 148, 151-5; as school and hospital, 155-7; features, 157 Charterhouse scholars, 156