. Ireland in London. valuable worksof reference in existence. Keeping to the left as the road winds in thatdirection, we pass on the right a former residenceof John Wilson Croker, called Munster House,which received the nickname of MonsterHouse, owing, it is Baid, to the fact that twohideous composition lions adorned each gateway ;but we may be allowed to refer its name to itsunprincipled owner, who, though a writer ofimmense vigour and ability, was a treacherousfriend and an intensely bitter opponent of hisCDuntry and countrymen. His famous editionof Boswells Johnson is the only work of hiswh
. Ireland in London. valuable worksof reference in existence. Keeping to the left as the road winds in thatdirection, we pass on the right a former residenceof John Wilson Croker, called Munster House,which received the nickname of MonsterHouse, owing, it is Baid, to the fact that twohideous composition lions adorned each gateway ;but we may be allowed to refer its name to itsunprincipled owner, who, though a writer ofimmense vigour and ability, was a treacherousfriend and an intensely bitter opponent of hisCDuntry and countrymen. His famous editionof Boswells Johnson is the only work of hiswhich is likely to live, though its author wrotewith great versatility on many subjects and inmany styles. He mote a great deal of poetry,which is now somewhat unjustly forgotten, anatural retribution for one who destroyed, or en-deavoured to destroy, the reputations of many of the great poets of the time he lived in. Hiahouse is in exactly the same condition as when heleft it, and appears not to have had a tenant for. T. CROFTON CROKER. many years. Croker was a Galway man,but was notproud of the fact, boasting rather of his Englishdescent. In Parsons Green Lane is a small house calledAudley Lodge, which was the famous Rosa-monds Bower of T. Crofton Croker, who livedthere for about nine years, and there collectedhis treasures and regaled his various friends andcountrymen. The main road leads over theThames to Putney, where John Toland, aneminent Irish philosophical and controversialwriter of the latter half of the 17th century, diedand was buried in 1722, aged 51. He was a natireof Donegal, and whatever may be thought of hiainferences and deductions regarding Christianity,his great learning and genius are unquestionable. Retracing our steps for a good distance alongthe Pulham-road, we reach Chdrch-street,Chelsea, on the right. In this street both Steele 81 Ireland in London. aud Swift resided, Chelsea being then as now, afavourite place of residence of literary men. Atthe bottom
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