Church review . eous red leatherupholstering and beautiful oak panel-ling, and the many other state apart-ments richly frescoed and adornedwith statues. Among the most interesting of allthe sights of London is the Temple,and the briefest walk in its vicinitygives one a glimpse of the auaint OldCuriosity Shop, Chancery Lane, andother localities that from earliestchildhood have stood for London tothe American. In one of the courts ofthe Temple is the fountain where it issaid Tom Pinch and the little dress-maker used to meet; near by stands ahouse immortalized as the residence ofCharles Lamb and
Church review . eous red leatherupholstering and beautiful oak panel-ling, and the many other state apart-ments richly frescoed and adornedwith statues. Among the most interesting of allthe sights of London is the Temple,and the briefest walk in its vicinitygives one a glimpse of the auaint OldCuriosity Shop, Chancery Lane, andother localities that from earliestchildhood have stood for London tothe American. In one of the courts ofthe Temple is the fountain where it issaid Tom Pinch and the little dress-maker used to meet; near by stands ahouse immortalized as the residence ofCharles Lamb and Blackstone; besidethe Temple church is the simple graveof Oliver Goldsmith; and within thebeautiful little building with its carvedblack oak furnishings lie sombremailed figures that mark the gravesof the old Knights Templars, thosewho served in the Crusades lying withtheir black marble legs sedatelycrossed. In the Hall of the Middle Temple,used as a lawyers dining-room, isshown the oldest flag in the world,—a. I. WEK OF LONDON. tween them on her course up theThames. See that bridge rising so majes-tic-like, he said, and he went on todilate upon its huge size and generalimpressiveness, while I listened impa-tiently. We have no ancient history, no won-derful Tower, but we have a Brooklynbridge.—a fact of which no loyalAmerican could allow a Briton to re-main long in ignorance under suchtrying circumstances. He listened amiably to my statisticsas to its height and length, and then bit of frayed white silk that wouldcrumble to ashes at a touch, but thatwaved its red cross and its Hoc Sig-no Vinco above the heads of perhapsthose same warriors during the thirdCrusade. Ones imagination is apt to run riot,however, in the midst of these oldrelics, being spurred on by the exam-ple of the garrulous custodian whoshows the credulous visitor the olddoors once used on the London Bridge,which he declares was destroyed sixhundred years ago. Then with a longforefinger he solemnly tap6 a fin
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