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Finmark-Cecil Family, 6-Ben Jonson's Works, 7. QUERIES:-Cardinals' Pillars - Ennobled Animals-Scott and Carey: Scott in Ireland, 7-Thomas Barry-Ned: "To raise Ned"-Maltby: Mawbey-Penn and Mead Jury, 1-70-Monumental Brasses in the Meyrick Collection Born with Teeth-Francis Prior: Annabella Beaumont, 8-Will-power as recorded in Historical Portraits-Calf Bytham-Napoleon's Coronation Robe: its Gold BeesRiggs-Census Report, 1851-Robert Weston-Brandon,

hill Family-Garioch: its Pronunciation-Piper at Castle

Duke of Suffolk, 9-Grindleton, 10.
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NOTES:-London Improvement, 1-Sir Thomas Nevill, 2-culture and arrangement of flowers and
The Epicure's Almanack, 4-An Earlier Charles Lamb shrubs (especially of the sumptuous rhododen-
-Zouave Uniform, 5-"Pretty Maids' Money
"Hooshtah"-The Metropolitan Railway-Birds of East dron) has greatly enhanced their beauty. A
great work here has been the rectification of
the Serpentine, the necessary complement of
the landscape. Its existence has not been
happy. Made for pleasure and ornament by
Queen Caroline in 1730, it had nevertheless
become the filth deposit of a district of grow-
ing London. The polluted West Bourn was
long suffered to bring down the sewage, and
although the evil stream had been diverted
some years before the "forties," the horrid
deposit remained, and was even augmented
at times of flood. The Metropolitan Drain-
age scheme, a work of great magnitude
which must have mention here, although, as
underground, it did not affect the outward
beauty of London-finally shut off all sewer
communication with the Serpentine; but not
until ten years later (1870) were the clean-
ing, deepening, and shaping of the lake
effected. And although its present supply of
water from wells and surface drainage, and
occasionally from the metropolitan system,
is not generous, we have now a handsome
lake. Green Park and St. James's, as
the satellites of Hyde Park, have shared
in the advance of enlightened culture.
Regent's Park and the much loved "Zoo
have also progressed; and in the more modern
London the old, wholesome example has been
followed in the making of Victoria, Batter-
sea, and several minor parks. Not only this,
but every green and common has become a
pleasaunce; and the grand old squares are
more carefully tended, their green lawns and
noble trees (wonderful in the heart of Lon-
don) compensating us for the clouded skies
and wet weather we sometimes find depressing.
the last homes of past generations: the burial-
Finally, in the list of these open spaces come
grounds of the dead have become the gardens
of the living, in some instances the play ground

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Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

LONDON IMPROVEMENT.

In my remarks on the increasing beauty of London, under the head Kingsway and Aldwych' (10th S. iv. 361), I partially re viewed what had been done during the last sixty years in the making of new thoroughfares and the improvement of old. It will now be a pleasure to me to extend the reference to other work accomplished in the advance so interesting and satisfactory to all

Londoners.*

The ardent demand for width and open spaces, parks, gardens, and playgrounds, has been noticed, and some work in that direction has had mention. In Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, originally one expanse,

Referring to my preceding note, I find that Kingsgate Street was demolished in the widening of Southampton Row in continuation of Kings way. It is, however, satisfactory to notice that "Kingsgate Baptist Church" (connected with the fine Church House of that denomination) preserves the name. The date "1560" in the sanie note I have to acknowledge as a slip. Theobalds was obtained by James I. iu 1607, in exchange with Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, for Hatfield (Walford, Greater London, i. 380). Also it should be read of Westminster and Blackfriars bridges that Westminster is the wider by five feet.

It was about the end of the forties that the building of Gothic churches was revived. Greek churches, correct or incorrect, and built to the dead, had been long in vogue; now serve equally the living and the medieval English form again commended itself. It is not becoming to criticize severely the first examples of the revival, or even the "restorations" then effected; mistakes no doubt were made, and it would be sad indeed if after sixty years of building nothing had been learnt. One of the first