on the old houses and churches of London which, for many years, have from time to time appeared in "The Builder." Some of the chapters in "Walks in London" have been already published, in a condensed form, in "Good Words " for 1877. The illustrations, with two or three exceptions, are from my own sketches taken on the spot, and carefully transferred to wood by the skill of Mr. T. Sulman. I shall gladly and gratefully receive any corrections of errors found in my work by those who follow in my footsteps. AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE. HOLMHURST, HASTINGS, November, 1877. INTRODUCTORY. "SIR, to say IR, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Such was the dictum of Dr. Johnson when he was seated with Boswell in the Mitre Tavern near Temple Bar, and how many thousands of people before and since have felt the same cat-like attachment as the old philosopher to the vast town of multitudinous life and ever-changing aspects? As Cowper says "Where has Pleasure such a field, So rich, so thronged, so drained, so well supplied, Macaulay had the reputation of having walked through every street in London, but if we consider the ever-growing size of the town we cannot believe that anyone else will ever do so: for more people live in London already than in the whole of Denmark or Switzerland, more than twice as many as in Saxony or Norway, and nearly as many as in Scotland. And, if we trust to old prophecies, London has |