VOL. XXIX.

MAY 26 1899 CAMBRIDGE, MASS

No. 3.

B

ENT upon treading with some method and sequence in the footprints of famous Americans who have visited London, we gaze, in the first place, upon the Tower, and there get back, in imagination, almost to the beginning of the colonial days, The Notes on the Required Reading in THE CHAUTAUQUAN will be found following those on the books of the course, in the C. L. S. C. Department of the magazine.

beholding as we do the prison of two men who, though English born, are inextricably bound up in name and fame with the early history of the American continent-Raleigh and Penn. Sir Walter was three times shut up in this gloomy medieval fortress, once in Queen Bess' time for a love sin, which he expiated by marrying Elizabeth Throgmor

Ostensibly for writing a heterodox pamphlet, but really to vex his father, the admiral, young William Penn was sent by Charles II. to the Tower. If he was not quite at home there he was very near it, for he was born on Tower Hill. Nine days old, he was baptized in the neighboring church of All Hallows Barking, as a faint entry in the register indicates:

1644. October 23. William, son of William Penn and Margaret his wife, of the Tower of Liberty.

The present font-how provoking!-dates from the following year, but in the main we see the same church that was entered by the Penn christening party, this being one of the few edifices that escaped the great fire of 1666..

Turning over the succeeding pages of the parish register we light upon this entry, under the marriages:

1797. July 26. John Quincy Adams, Esq., of Boston, in N. America, and Louisa Catherine John son, Spinster, of this parish, by license.

president of the United States (a position he himself was to occupy later), and he was passing through London on his way to Berlin. The altar, flanked by some of the choicest examples of Grinling Gibbons' wood-carv

ing, is practically the same as that at which the future president knelt.

While in this part

of the city one should visit the Church of St. Olave, in Hart Street, the burial place of Pepys, the diarist, to whose memory James Russell Lowell unveiled a bust there when he was minister to England.

In the wake of Washington Irving, we move on to Eastcheap, not, like him, to find the Boar's Head Tavern, but the statue of William IV., which stands upon part of the site. Irving was just in time to see the inn before its demolition. At another hostelry close by he was shown a sacramental cup taken from the Church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, which vessel he transformed, in that inimitable "knickerbocker" style of his, so full of subtle drollery, into the parcel. gilt goblet whereon fat, faithless Falstaff swore to marry Dame Quickley.