one
who undertakes this labor with the due amount of knowledge and
enthusiasm may be sure of finding his reward in it. Though London is the
supreme embodiment of modern life, with its ceaseless absorption and
accumulation, it is none the less imbued with a conservative spirit
which has saved it from the wholesale demolitions and ruthless
remodellings to which Paris has been subjected. Mr. Hare speaks with
just indignation of the destruction of Northumberland House at Charing
Cross, but this has so far been an exceptional instance, though it is
perhaps an ominous one. The traveller may still step aside from the busy
Strand into the silent and beautiful Temple Church with its tombs of
Crusaders, pause as he leaves his banker's in Bishopsgate to take a
survey of Crosby Hall and Sir Paul Pindar's house with their reminders
of the financial magnates of a bygone time beautifying their homes in
the City as visible proclamations of their prosperity, and find, as he
wanders through Aldgate and Bevis Marks, Wych street, Holborn and
Lincoln's Inn, Southwark and Lambeth, hundreds of quaint fronts or
picturesque memorials linked with names and events, epochs and usages,
that have been familiar to his mind from childhood. But many such
scenes and objects will escape notice or fail of due appreciation unless
an informant be at hand qualified to proffer the needed suggestions
without indulging in wearisome garrulity. Mr. Hare seems to us to meet
very well the requirements of this office, his book being a happy medium
between the concise though comprehensive, and for ordinary purposes
indispensable, manual of Baedeker and the voluminous works of Timbs and
Cunningham.

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