ch of education, or
because she was herself in the height of a dramatic fever, it would be
invidious to inquire. The effect may be easily foreseen; my enthusiasm
soon equalled her own; we began to read Shakspeare, and read nothing
else."

In 1810 Miss Mitford first appeared as an authoress, by publishing a
volume of poems, which, in the course of the following year, passed into
a second edition.

At No. 21 Hans Place, the talented artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan,
resided some time.

Returning from Hans Place to the Fulham Road through NEW STREET, No. 7
may he pointed out as the house formerly occupied by Chalon, "animal
painter to the royal family;" and No. 6 as the residence of the Right
Hon. David R. Pigot, the late Solicitor-General for Ireland, while (in
1824-25) studying in the chambers of the late Lord Chief-Justice Tindal,
for the profession of which his pupil rapidly became an eminent member.

BROMPTON was formerly an airy outlet to which the citizen, with his
spouse, were wont to resort for an afternoon of rustic enjoyment. It had
also the reputation of being a locality favourable to intrigue. Steele,
shrewdly writing on the 27th July, 1713, says:--

"Dear Wife,--If you please to call at Button's, we will go together
to Brompton.

"Yours ever,
"RICHARD STEELE." {38a}

Now is Brompton all built or being built over, which makes the precise
locality of crescents and rows puzzling to old gentlemen. Its heath is
gone, and its grove represented by a few dead trunks and some
unhealthy-looking trees which stand by the road-side, their branches
lopped and their growth restrained by order of the district surveyor; and
Brompton National School, nearly opposite to New Street, a building in
the Tudor style, was, in 1841, wedged in there "for the education of 400
children, after the design of Mr. George Godwin, jun.;" so at least the
newspapers of the day informed the public.

BROMPTON ROW on the north, or right-hand side of the main Fulham Road,
now consists of fifty-five respectable-looking houses, uniform, or nearly
so, in appearance; and, according to the statements in the 'Gentleman's
Magazine' {38b} and Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Kensington' {38c} here
died Arthur Murphy. But although this was not the case, in Brompton Row
have lived and died authors, and actors, and artists, whose