. A wanderer in London. r on a new facadein Fleet Street; Queen Victoria, by Blackfriars Bridge,standing, and in Kensington Gardens, seated; Cromwellin the shelter of Westminster Hall, very nigh the replacedbauble; Richard Coeur de Lion, splendidly warlike, on hishorse, by the House of Lords; the Duke of York of dis-creditable memory on his column in Waterloo Place, doingall he can by his sheer existence to depreciate the value ofthe national tribute to Nelson close by; Welhngton atHyde Park Corner and again before the Stock Exchange;Havelock in Trafalgar Square; Captain Coram by hisFoundling
. A wanderer in London. r on a new facadein Fleet Street; Queen Victoria, by Blackfriars Bridge,standing, and in Kensington Gardens, seated; Cromwellin the shelter of Westminster Hall, very nigh the replacedbauble; Richard Coeur de Lion, splendidly warlike, on hishorse, by the House of Lords; the Duke of York of dis-creditable memory on his column in Waterloo Place, doingall he can by his sheer existence to depreciate the value ofthe national tribute to Nelson close by; Welhngton atHyde Park Corner and again before the Stock Exchange;Havelock in Trafalgar Square; Captain Coram by hisFoundling Hospital; Shakespeare in the middle of Leices-ter Square, within hail of the Empire and the Alhambra,and again, with Chaucer and Milton, in Hamilton Place;Milton outside St. Giless, Cripplegate; Robert Burns inthe Embankment Gardens; Lord Strathnairn at Knights-bridge ; Boadicca in her chariot on Westminster Bridge;Darwin, Huxley, Owen and Banks in the Natural HistoryMuseum; William Pitt, a gigantic figure, in Hanover p. IoitriiAri OK A v<)ii.\(; si ilitok AKTEK THK PAINTINCJ IIV DKL HAKTO IN THK NATIONAL ( A LIST OF STATUES 81 Square; Charles James Fox in Russell Square and at Hol-land House; Carlyle in Chelsea; Sir Hugh Myddelton inIslington Green; Canning (who has a sparrows nest underhis arm every spring) in Parliament Square; Cobden inCamden Town; Sir Robert Peel (in profile very like Lamb)in Cheapside; Lord Herbert of Lea opposite the WarOffice; Cardinal Newman by the Brompton Oratory;John Wesley opposite Bunhill Fields; George Stephensonat Euston; Sir John Franklin in Waterloo Place, nearseveral Crimean heroes; Byron, seated, in Hamilton Gar-dens, and in relief in St. Jamess Street and again in HoliesStreet; and Prince Albert, unnamed and unrecognisedin Ilolborn Circus, and again, all gold, in KensingtonGardens, seated beneath a canopy not without ornamenta-tion. This, though far from complete, may be called agood list; and I doubt if there are many L
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