Church review . thePoets Corner in honor of Longfellow,and the monuments to three men whoaffected the history of our own coun-try, Major Andre, William Pitt, andral Wolfe. Behind the Abbey,too, in the vestibule of the ChapterHouse where the House of Commonswas originally held, are a bust andstained window in commemoration ofour own I^owell. Still farther alongth« beautiful Abbey cloisters is thewell known Westminster school, itswalls carved with the names of famous by Richard III., and almost fancies hecan see their sad little faces peeringout upon the gray stones of the these m
Church review . thePoets Corner in honor of Longfellow,and the monuments to three men whoaffected the history of our own coun-try, Major Andre, William Pitt, andral Wolfe. Behind the Abbey,too, in the vestibule of the ChapterHouse where the House of Commonswas originally held, are a bust andstained window in commemoration ofour own I^owell. Still farther alongth« beautiful Abbey cloisters is thewell known Westminster school, itswalls carved with the names of famous by Richard III., and almost fancies hecan see their sad little faces peeringout upon the gray stones of the these memorials of therulers of the past and the Tower col-lection of the magnificent crown jewelsof the rulers of the present, one seeseverywhere the Beef-eaters in theirpeculiar costume of long blouse andbell-shaped hat, and notices upon thebreasts of these old soldiers many abeautiful badge conferred by her Maj-for meritorious conduct in the London police, these guardsare uniformly kind and polite, and. HOlSES 01 PARLIAMENT. men who claim it as their Alma Mater. St. Pauls Cathedral may justly beconsidered Englands Valhalla, and,though the dead heroes it entombs be-long in fame and achievement to a na-tion rather than to the world, yet thespirit of an Anglo-Saxon must everbow down in obeisance before themonuments of Wellington and Nelsonand the fine, strong face of Gordon, ashe lies in bronze upon his bier. But the saddest little burial-place inall the world is the tiny chapel of at London Tower. Nearly everyname inscribed upon its tombs is alasting testimony to the cruel bigotryof an age when horrid crimes wereperpetrated in the name of the gentleChrist-child. Scarce a head is buriedhere that has not first been severedfrom the poor, tortured body, that theaim of church or state might thus befurthered. Before its very door is the site ofthe scaffold where Anne Boleyn, Cath-arine Howard, and Lady Jane Grey-last saw the towers that should havestood for law and ri
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