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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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ansdowneHouse, which takes the foot passenger into Berkeley Street.Once, however, a horseman made the journey too: a high-wayman, who after a successful coup in Piccadilly, evadedhis pursuers by dashing down the steps and along thispassage — a feat which led to the vertical iron bars nowto be seen at either end. Berkeley Square is smaller than Grosvenor Square but ithas more character. Many of the wealthy inhabitants ofGrosvenor Square are willing to take houses as they findthem; but in Berkeley Square they make them peculiarlytheir own. At No. 11 Horace Walpole lived for eighteenyears (with alternations at Strawberry Hill), and here hedied in 1797. At No. 45 Clive committed suicide. AuldRobin Gray was written at No. 21. To the task of tracing the past of this fashionablequarter there would of course be no end, and indeed onecould not have a much more interesting occupation; butthis is not that kind of book, and I have perhaps saidenough to send readers independently to Wheatley and
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I III-. ■ I,AI (.illN<. t A\ Al.iKli AKTK.lt TIIK IM< TIKK IJY KKANS HALH IN THK WALLACE COLI.Kt HON HAY HILLS FOOTPADS 41 Cunningham,^ who have been so useful to me and to whomold London is more familiar than new. For anyone benton this pleasant enterprise of re-peopling Mayfair, Berke-ley Square is a very good starting point. Charles Street,Bruton Street, and Mount Street all lead from it, of whichCharles Street perhaps retains most of its ancient peace andopulent gravity. One of its new houses, with three dormerwindows, has some of the best wrought iron in London.At No. 42 Uved, in 1792, Beau Bruramell; while anotherCharles Street dandy — but only half a one, since hesmirched his escutcheon bv writin: books and legislating:— was the first Lord Lytton. Here also Mr. Burke flirtedwith Fannv Burncv, before Mrs. Burkes face too. Later,Beau Brummcll moved to 4 Chesterfield Street, where hehad for neighbour George Sehvyn, who made the bestjokes of his day and dearly loved a h

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