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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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hink, the most depressing chamberI ever hurried from; but a few of the pictures stand out— Reynolds portrait of Sir William Chambers, and Rae-burns Boy and Rabbit, and Sargents Venetian In-terior, for example. But it is Leonardo and MichaelAngelo and Constable that make the ascent necessary. A few years ago it was to Piccadilly that every fortunatechild was taken, to hear the Christy Minstrels; but thisform of entertainment having been killed in England,within doors at any rate, that famous troupe is no more.The St. Jamess Hall has been razed to the ground, and asI write a new hotel is rising on its site; yet twenty yearsago the names of Moore and Burgess were as well knownand as inextricably associated with Londons fun as anyhave ever been. But the red ochre of the Music Hallcomedians nose now reigns where once burnt cork hadsway: and Brother Bones asks no more conundrums ofMr. Johnson — Can you tole me ? — and Mr. Johnsonno more sends the question ricochetting back for Brother
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VlK(iIN AND CillLI) AKTKB THE PICTURE BY ANDKICA DEL HARTO IN TIIK WALLACK fULLECTION SAVILE ROW 53 Bones triumphantly to supply its answer. A thousandhumorous possibilities have been discovered and de-veloped since then, from tramp cyclism to the farces ofthe cinematoscope, and faces are blacked now only on thesands. Gone too is the Egyptian Hall, that other Piccadilly)Mecca of happy childhood, where incredible illusions heldthe audience a-gape twice daily. Maskelyne still remains,but there is no Cook any more, and the new Home ofMystery is elsewhere; while every Music Hall has itsmysteries too. Change! Change! But the BurlingtonArcade remains, through which, half stifled by heat andpatchouli, one may if one likes regain the quietude ofGeorgian I^ondon: for one comes that way to Cork Streetand Old Burlington Street and Boyle Street and SavileRow, which have been left pretty much as they were. InOld Burlington Street lived General Wolfe as a youth;and here lived and died the poet Aken

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