The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . rby, and Beaconsfield. West of the enclosure is thestatue of George Canning, while a replica of the statue ofAbraham Lincoln, by Saint Gaudens, at Chicago, stands infront of the Middlesex Guildhall. Turning up Parliament Street we pass New ScotlandYard, the police headquarters, on the right, while oppositeare important Government offices. Between Charles Streetand Downing Street lies the Colonial Office, in fr
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . rby, and Beaconsfield. West of the enclosure is thestatue of George Canning, while a replica of the statue ofAbraham Lincoln, by Saint Gaudens, at Chicago, stands infront of the Middlesex Guildhall. Turning up Parliament Street we pass New ScotlandYard, the police headquarters, on the right, while oppositeare important Government offices. Between Charles Streetand Downing Street lies the Colonial Office, in front of whichstands the Cenotaph, a monument, doubly impressive inits simplicitv, erected in commemoration of the GloriousDead of 1914-1918. It was designed by Sir Edwin Downing Street are the residences of the Prime Minister 34 A QUICK TOUR OI (No. 10) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (No. 11),while facing them is the Foreign Ofiftce. Further along Whitehall we notice the Horse Guardswith the sentries mounted on horseback and resplendentin scarlet or blue, whilst almost opposite is the War further along, on the opposite side of the road, is the. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Admiralty, and a few yards more brings us to TrafalgarSquare, with the Nelson Column, and on the north side theNational Art Gallery and the National Portrait plinth of the Nelson Column is a favourite stand for orators at political and other demonstrations in theSquare. In the NE. corner of the Square is the fine church ofSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, built by Gibbs in 1721-26. Itcontains the font from the old church in which Bacon,Hampden and Charles II were baptised. On the east sideof the Square are the offices of the Union of South Africa. 35 A OriCK TOlR OF LONDON. In front of the National Gallery at the St. Martins Laneend stands a reproduction of Houdons statue of GeorgeWashington at Richmond, Virginia, presented by the Stateof Virginia in 1921. Crossing the Sq
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