, 1874-08-23
LONDON.
3-e Old and the New.

zce Old and the New.
The Tower, st. Paul's, and Work
ingmcn's Chop-Houses.
Tho Tower is By no meaps the oldest thing il
London, but notnlng-hardly the Abbey itself
seems 30 old. A geat central fortress. sur
| rounded By an inner aud outer wall OF 1amparts
and bulwarkH, encompassed By deep moat
which IL crossed by bridges defended BY cannon,
its aspect carries one far back Into the Past
| The Tower appears somewhat OF i mianomer;
| th ere sre, in fact. inside the moat.
| NEAIER TWENTY TOWERS.
There is the central keep. or citadel, called the
White Tower Middle, and the Byward Towers.
defending The southwest angle Of the
! Enoat :; the Cradle Tower aud St. Thomas Tower
and, in the inner ward, q new serles,-the
| Bloody, Bell. and Jewel Towers the Dovereux
and Beaucbamp Towers.-with others that one
need not enumer.te. The guide~books have
much to say Of tho place under its threefold
character OF fortress, prison, and palace; but it
!
peculiar incosure, and recall laborionsly the
sove1eigns who have held court here, the Illus
| trious captiyes who have entered here, or to
| puzzle out the curious inscriptions on the dun
| geon walls. That one can do in books, 5000
| miles away. But what one cannot do elsewhere
| is 20 trace under these gloomy archways, look
| up to these bold, massive towers surnlountlng
wallis Of immense thickness and solid1ty survey
An1t +.yyrn o,H het}1
and feel oneself transported to the FeudaI Ago,
OF which this is the most complete memorial in
all England. For everything about the Tower III
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| This place commentaries only ROYAL joys and
| sorrovs, the tribulatons aud triumphs of noble
knights aud 1adics,-Beauchamps Arundcle,
Devereuxs. Howards.-no ''simple annals" p" of
soldier and sailor, printer, goldsmith or engin-
eer. Such we're "base-born churls and 50 slug
gish binds " in the spirit OF those days Very
properly, therefore. the first stone Of She Tower
dates from William the Norman, who brought
French feudalism to England; and its use as a
palace expires with the Habeas Corpus Of
Charles H. The sovereign needed no longer
protection from bis eubiects,-the era OF Law
aud Constitutional Government made 1t . relic.
4 morning in the Tower is like reading half OF
Walter Scott'B novels at once.
Besides this, there are incidental features of
special interest: Queen ElizabethH Armory, for
Instance. If you want to know what they fought
with at Agincourt and Flodden Field what q
g1aiye, OF a bill, or 3 pike, or habcrd was !;
what ere the steps in firearms from arquebus
to MIME rifle; If you want, in short. to read or
to write picturesque history. here is your oppor-
tunity for study. But nothing hero excites 20
1eal and warm an emotion al tho tradition that
in this room with its curiously-raulted roof, aud
in the cell-like closet adjOi1IIng,
SIR wALTER RALEIGH
spent the twelve long years OF his imprisonment.
There is large window on one side, alld through
the diamond panc9 one eau catch glimpse Ut
something green. Let US hope it was go in his
time but with every fanc!ed alienation, and
even tbs occasional presence ut his true wife
and bright boy. how he must have chnfei and
iretted i'll these narrow bounds ! What
visions must baye crowded upon him when tho
twilight closed around him when he laid down
his Den and rose up from his History OF tho
World, aud paced his room like Gagged lion.
What visions are ours, standing III his foot
'sl,iiio farm; tho versatile Oxford student the
enthusiastic young sollierin the Low Countries;
the brave young companion OF the Gllberts IN
tile American seas the gallant. grncefu! courter
of the Ellzabethau galaxy; tic grcnt Admiral,
apnroacline Yirginian woods aud coasts Of the
Carolnas melancholy scholar Of tho Tower;
broken. hearted explorer of the Orinoco; heroic
old man, smiling upon tue scahola,-"has
wonderful career was this which came TO so long
8 cause in these four walls.
Apart from these associations, the larger
Armories, including COLLECTIONS Of modern
wcapons produce d strong impression, ,-sonle-
t1ung like that expressed by Longtclluw III Ills
- Arsenal at Springfield" Greek asn,or from
Cnmae. Etruscan helmets, a1es Of Ceit aud
Br15op. Roman spcar-heads, and Saxon daggers,
what illustrations are these OF Homer, GRAY,
and Gibboui No wonder tho articles in tho
Briti.h Encyclopedia a1e so we'll wfitton- Who
could not wlite III article here On
WAR AND WEAPONS?
'Perhaps the most striking objects Of this col1ec
ton are the equestrian tignrcs.-iiie-llke eitEes
Of monarchs and warriors "clad in complete
stcel," armed cap-a-Iie." SO tue Ocean -Ilnded
hath it. These kn1ghtlY couuterfets are 80 ar
various forms Of armor-chain, mail, plate, and
80 forth--f1om the Norman Conquest to the
Revolution of 1858. Here you call see how
Heury v looked when he said, "Onco more
uuto the breach: dear friends !" at Harfleur;
how Richard i'll appeared before he lost his
horse on Bosworth Field !; you eau see Henry
VIII. exactly as he tilted on the Field
Of the Cloth Of Gold, and tie Earl OF Lcicester
US he saluted Elizabeth III the tournament At
Kenilworth nay, from this rresentment OF Stat
ford in ha1f-arrnor aud buff boots. you eau even |
conjure up Cromwell aud Fairfax, the 1aelan- |
choIy Falkland and Hampden. Welcomest fgure |
OF all. It is not surprising that the London
theatres are correct in costuIn1ng historic |
plays, nor that the English barde, historians, !,
aud noYe1ists have been 70 successful IN repro |
ducing the picturesque Middle Age.--thelr ma
terlaIs we're near and abundant. I am more anu |
more struck by the wisdom Of our first A1nerl-
can novelist, and OF our lending poets, III choos-
ng their subjects in fresh fields and pastures
new" On tho old ground Of the Past, imitation
Has easy, but competition impossible
In the arrangement OF
MODERN WEAPONS
here arc some curious features. On the ceil-
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