London, an intimate picture . erected here in 1661, afterGeneral Monk had succeeded in putting the Stuartsback on the throne, and joy was, so to speak, un-refined. With the coming of the first George ofHanover, St. Mary le Strand was incontinently re-built. Close behind is St. Clement Danes. Bothchurches stand full in the middle of the road, butone imagines them on a kind of oval, due to the om-nibuses curving round them to the left on the wayto Fleet Street and to the right on the return jour-ney. St. Clement Danes is still somewhat of a fash-ionable church, though one hardly knows why. Itwas
London, an intimate picture . erected here in 1661, afterGeneral Monk had succeeded in putting the Stuartsback on the throne, and joy was, so to speak, un-refined. With the coming of the first George ofHanover, St. Mary le Strand was incontinently re-built. Close behind is St. Clement Danes. Bothchurches stand full in the middle of the road, butone imagines them on a kind of oval, due to the om-nibuses curving round them to the left on the wayto Fleet Street and to the right on the return jour-ney. St. Clement Danes is still somewhat of a fash-ionable church, though one hardly knows why. Itwas built by Christopher Wren, and Dr. Johnsonwas one of her pew-holders, but essentially it differslittle from St. Marys, a hundred yards are gray-white and both have the aspect subtlytypical of London churches. You simply could notimagine them elsewhere. Yet every now and againyou read of a fashionable wedding in St. ClementDanes, but in St. Mary le Strand, I have neverseen anyone on week days except charwomen at. St. Clement Danes Church. Erected by Sir Christopher Wren TRAFALGAR SQUARE work. A tablet to Dr. Johnson in St. Clementsrecords various of his virtues, and among thoseburied there are Thomas Otway, Joe Miller and, soit is said, Harold Harefoot, sprung from the loinsof King Canute. To the west of the church is astatue of Gladstone by Hamo Thornycroft and tothe east one of Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald. Clements Inn, on the left of St. Mary le Strand,is merely a vast new building of offices and resi-dential chambers, and were Master Shallow orFalstaff to revisit it now they would hardly recog-nize in the present structure the St. Clements Innof their roistering days. The Womens Social andPolitical Union has its offices here, and Mr. and Lawrence their rooms. Justice Shallowwould very justly be surprised. As for Shadaw,Mouldy, Wart and Feeble, those redoubtable re-cruits that Shallow offered to Falstaff against thewars, the Fabian Society, now house
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