. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ;iON Ho!-SE ...ONAi, GalleryNTs Park ... I. ArADKMV ... 48 I St. Jamess Park s*; I Tower S8 56 I St. Pancras Station, Midland Rv. 36 Trafaixiar Sqiare 5° 35 I St. Pails 47 I Victoria Station- 05 s5 I South Kensington S4 I Westminster Abbey 5° -3 THE BRITISH MUSEUM. From Strekt to the British Museum is not a long walk, and asit conducts the saunterer past University College, with its fine portico andlofty dome, and through the handsome squares that have been carved o
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ;iON Ho!-SE ...ONAi, GalleryNTs Park ... I. ArADKMV ... 48 I St. Jamess Park s*; I Tower S8 56 I St. Pancras Station, Midland Rv. 36 Trafaixiar Sqiare 5° 35 I St. Pails 47 I Victoria Station- 05 s5 I South Kensington S4 I Westminster Abbey 5° -3 THE BRITISH MUSEUM. From Strekt to the British Museum is not a long walk, and asit conducts the saunterer past University College, with its fine portico andlofty dome, and through the handsome squares that have been carved outof the estate of the Duke of Bedford, it is one that can be conscientiouslyrecommended. The British Museum, though one of the youngest institutions of thekind in Europe, is one of the wealthiest in treasures of art and the broad flight of stairs, and passing through a portico of Ioniccolumns, we enter a vestibule of noble proportions. The door in front givesaccess to the Reading Room, covered with a huge dome of iron and brick. CiK^- 140 feet in diameter. The rooms on the right contain a portion of theLibrary, and here the visitor may examine some of its most preciouscontents, exhibited in glass cases, and arranged chronologically so as toillustrate the progress of the printers art. The galleries on the left are crowded with the masterpieces of Greek andRoman Art, and the no less remarkable sculptures of Egypt and Assyria,which carry us back to a period two thousand years anterior to the birth ofChrist. Foremost amongst these treasures are Phidiass famous statues,which Lord Elgin, in the good old days of Turkish rule, carried away fromthe Pantheon in Athens, and sold to Government for ;^35,ooo. More varied are the articles exhibited on the upper floor. Visitors willdo well to ask one of the attendants to direct them to the Gold OrnamentRoom. It is there some of the most highly prized gems of the Museumare kept, together with the famous Portland Vase. The M
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