Ancient lights and certain new reflections, being the memories of a young man; . amned, but I should have produced uponthat bailiff the impression that I desired. So inthis book. It is not always foggy in Bloomsbury;indeed I happen to be writing in Bloomsbury atthis moment, and, though it is just before Christmas,the light of day is quite tolerable. Nevertheless,with an effrontery that will I am sure appal thecritic of my Hessian peasant story, I say that thePre-Raphaelite poets carried on their work amidstthe glooms of Bloomsbury ; and this I think is a trueimpression. To say that on an avera
Ancient lights and certain new reflections, being the memories of a young man; . amned, but I should have produced uponthat bailiff the impression that I desired. So inthis book. It is not always foggy in Bloomsbury;indeed I happen to be writing in Bloomsbury atthis moment, and, though it is just before Christmas,the light of day is quite tolerable. Nevertheless,with an effrontery that will I am sure appal thecritic of my Hessian peasant story, I say that thePre-Raphaelite poets carried on their work amidstthe glooms of Bloomsbury ; and this I think is a trueimpression. To say that on an average in the last25 years there have been in Bloomsbury per 365 days,10 of bright sunshine, 299 of rain, 42 of fog and theremainder compounded of all three would notseriously help the impression. This fact 1 thinkyou will understand, though I doubt whether myfriend the critic will. F. M. H. I find tliat I have written these wordsnot in Bloomsbury but in the electoral district ofEast Saint Pancras. Perhaps it is gloomier inBloomsbury. I will go and see. It is. xvi. MIL LIKENESS OF i;K(i\\N [Photo, Faulkner) [ Tn fnrr p. 1 ANCIENT LIGHTSI THE INNER CIRCLE Says Thackeray : On his way to the City, Mr. Newcome rode tolook at the new house, No. 120, Fitzroy Square,which his brother, the colonel, had taken in conjunc-tion with that Indian friend of his, Mr. Binnie. . .The house is vast but, it must be owned, long since it was a ladies school, in an unpros-perous condition. The scar left by Madame Latoursbrass plate may still be seen on the tall black door,cheerfully ornamented, in the style of the end of thelast century, with a funeral urn in the centre of theentry, and garlands and the skulls of rams at eachcorner. . The kitchens were gloomy. The stableswere gloomy. Great black passages; cracked con-servatory; dilapidated bath-room, with melancholywaters moaning and fizzing from the cistern; thegreat large blank stone staircase—were all so
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