. Walks in London . St. Johns Gate, Clerkenwell. bearing a flag, kneeling on the clasped gospels. The oldrooms above the gate are highly picturesque, and have beenfilled with an interesting series of memorials relating to itshistory. This collection is rather literary than military ormonastic, for here Cave the printer started, in January 1731, ZU2 WALKS IN LONDON. The Gentlemans Magazine, which has always borne a picture of the gate on its cover, so that its appearance is familiar to tliousands who have never beheld it. Dr. Johnson, , previously unknown, used to work for Cave at so much ,,:-:
. Walks in London . St. Johns Gate, Clerkenwell. bearing a flag, kneeling on the clasped gospels. The oldrooms above the gate are highly picturesque, and have beenfilled with an interesting series of memorials relating to itshistory. This collection is rather literary than military ormonastic, for here Cave the printer started, in January 1731, ZU2 WALKS IN LONDON. The Gentlemans Magazine, which has always borne a picture of the gate on its cover, so that its appearance is familiar to tliousands who have never beheld it. Dr. Johnson, , previously unknown, used to work for Cave at so much ,,:-::;.:;, Dr. Johnsons Chair, St. Johns Gate. per sheet, and for some time was almost wholly dependentupon his magazine articles. The accounts which he gaveof the marvellous powers of his friend Garrick inspiredCave with a desire to see him act, and in the old room,which is now the dining-hall of the tavern, Garrick is said ST. JOHNS, CLERKENWELL. X»3 to have made his debut before a select audience in FieldingsMock Doctor. An old chair, placed beneath his bust in thisroom, is still shown as Dr. Johnsons chair. After hehad anonymously published his Life of Richard Savage,Walter Harte, author of the ** Life of Gustavus Adolphus,dined with Cave at St. Johns and greatly commended thebook. Soon afterwards Cave told him that he had uncon-sciously given great pleasure to some one when he wasdining with him, and on the inquiry, How can that be?reminded him of the plate of food which had been sentbehind the screen at dinner, and told him that Johnson,the author of the book he commended, considered hims
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