. Vanishing England . burnt down,but fortunately the huge figures on the staircase weresaved and appear again in the new Court, the residenceof a distinguished antiquary, Mr. Charles Keyser, House, in Buckinghamshire, once the resi-dence of the exiled French Court of Louis XVIII duringthe Revolution and the period of the ascendancy ofNapoleon 1, has some curiously carved oaken figuresadorning the staircase, representing Hercules, the Furies,and various knights in armour. We give an illustrationof the staircase newel in Cromwell House, Highgate,with its quaint little figure of a

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