Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-10
Historical Roon
ing, showing them things Of great in.

ing, showing them things Of great in
terest.
Taking the cars on the NIetropoli-
tan or underground ralIaay which
makes the entire circnit OF the city. q
lew minutes brings 10 The S.ull, Ken.
, siDgton Museum and the Albert Mem.
orial Monument, at one corner of
Hyde Park. The museum, while it IL
not so large as the British is yet q fac
one and is scientifically arranged. II
has lately become distinguished for
the Art School connected with ii.
What interested me most az nv last
visit was DIR. Schliemann's collection
of Trojan antiquities, which has been
on exhibition here since last Christ
mas. The memorial erected to Prince
Albert by Queen Victoria is very fine
and in uudlsputed taste except the
gigantic gilt statue Of the Prince. AS
whole the monument has a general
appearance to the Scott monument az
Edinburg.
We ride back toward the center OF
the city for more than mile along
Hyde Park, one of the many breath.
ing places which London is fortunate
in possessing, by Buckingham Palace
gardens and the palace itself, large
but by no means striking building the
city residence or the Queen of Eng
land, down the Nall beside the beau.
tiful st. James Park to Charing Cross
the center of West end, the fashiona-
bic part of London. Near here are
many OF the finest residences in the
city, and most of the aristocratic club
houses.
At Charing Cross in Trafalgar
Square is a magnificent monument TO
Lord Nelson and along one side of the
Square is the National Art Gallery.
From Charing Cross the street is
called the Strand and is one of the
most prominent thoroughfares of the
great city. At Temple Bar which
was formerly conspicuous land
mark and could be seen at long dis
lance from either side the name again
changes to Fleet street. The Bar
was o rnde arch thrown across the
street, where in early times there
stood the posts or bars which marked
the boundary between London and
Westminster. Ii was removed about
two years ago and we miss its famil.
lar arch and the rusty iron hooks, on 4
which the heads of criminals were ex-
posed only hundred years ago.
Just as We enter Fleet street on the
right is former palace Of Henry VII
and Cardinal Wolsey, which is now .
hair cutting establishment. Fleet
street was formerly resort OF liter
airy men. Ben Jonson, Chatterton,
Dryden, Milton, Goldsmith and a
host OF others were associated with
this historic street. The well known
MIR. "Punch" has also his Office here.
At the foot Of Lndgate Hill the street
again changes Its name to Ludgate
Circus, which extends to st. Paul's
Cathedral the place where we com.
menced our sightseeing.
II we now take seat with driver
Of an omnibus on Cheapside we can
ride through Newgate, Holborn and
Oxford streets, (the same unbroken
street but with different names)
distance Of many miles hack to Ken. 1
sington and will have seen the entire
length of the city, in course in gen.
eral parallel to that taken from Ken
sington to St. Paul's. On Oxford
street we are near the British Muse.
um,about which VIC can only say here
that is it the largest and best museum
IN the worldand is worth all the time
one can give it il it be month Il
was recently proposed to issue a cat
aiogue of the Museum but the plan
was finally abandoned because to sim.
ply name the different things in the
collection would require several books
as large as Webster's Unabridged.
The limits of single letter will
permit mention of only a few OF the
places and those the most prominent
which we had the pleasure of visiting
To any one born to the English Lam
guage there is no city in the world
equal to London for interest or i'm.
provement, and for weeks the travel
err can wander through,it familiarizing
himself with places, persons and
events which have been prominent in
our common English history for the
past thousand years. Although Lon
don is diDgy aud smoky and often OBJ.
scured by dense fog, and rains are
SO sudden and frequent that it seems
as if the inhabitants were born with
under their arms, she is
city TO be loved by every American
traveller and to be left with regret.
o. X. Burchard.