was on a visit here (see his Diary, September 28, 1668) he set his wig on fire. In 1854 the Government purchased Burlington House and since then it has become a nest of learned societies.

Cadogan Place (Sloane Street).-Mrs. Jordan, the actress, lived at No. 3; Macaulay was a resident here and William Wilberforce, famous for his fight against the slave traffic, died at No. 44 in 1833.

Caledonian Road.-Here is Pentonville Prison, with accommodation for 1,000 male prisoners. Roger Casement's execution here for treason during the War (August 3, 1916) was the first punishment of this kind since the hanging of the Cato Street conspirators in 1820. The neighbouring cattle market is notable for the number of people who go there every Friday to pick up bargains in the antique from the small dealers who flock there from every part of London. This is the London equivalent of the "Rag Markets" of Paris and Rome.

Camberwell Grove (Camberwell).-Joseph Chamberlain was born here in 1836.

Campden Hill (Kensington).-Lord Macaulay died at Holly Lodge in 1859. Dean Swift lived at Gravel Pits.

Canonbury Tower (Islington).-All that remains of a fine old house supposed to have been built in 1362. The original house covered the whole of that which is now Canonbury Place. About 1719 it was let out as lodgings. Goldsmith used to hide from his creditors here; and here the "Vicar of Wakefield " was written. Many literary men lived here. Charles Lamb and Washington Irving were fond of the old house and often explored it. Carey Street (Lincoln's Inn).-Contains the melancholy building known as the Bankruptcy Court. Otherwise it has little history beyond the fact that Blackstone wrote

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"Commentaries" in this street and Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have lived there at one time.

Carlton Club. (See Pall Mall.)

Carlton House Terrace, which backs on to the Mall, occupies the site of a Royal residence, called Carlton House, built in 1709 and sold in 1732 to Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of George III), and was subsequently the residence of George IV when Prince of Wales. The house was demolished in 1828 to make way for the central opening of Waterloo Place. Some of the distinctive Corinthian pillars which formed the colonnade outside the house were used in the portico of the National Gallery. The Terrace is a distinguished address. Palmerston lived at No. 5, Gladstone at No. II.

Castle Street (Oxford Street).-Probably takes its name from an inn which once stood there. At No. 36 Edmund Burke went to be painted by James Barry, the Royal Academician, who sought the orator's aid in cooking a beefsteak which they afterwards consumed. Dr. Johnson and his wife were living, we learn from Boswell, at No. 6 in 1738, on his second visit to London. In a néighbour's house in this street Johnson first met Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Cavendish Square dates from 1717. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dated many of her letters from No. 5 (then No. 3, east side). When at the crest of his career Romney lived in No. 32 (since rebuilt). No. 18 is the American Consulate.

Cenotaph, The (Whitehall), is the most famous monument in London, and the one entirely Imperial monument in the capital. It was erected in plaster from Sir Edward Lutyen's design as a saluting point for the troops during the Allied Victory March of November 11, 1919. The Cenotaph caught the popular imagination and was

re-erected in stone and unveiled by the King on the second anniversary of the Armistice, November 11, 1920. The scene that takes place at the Cenotaph on November II each year, when the King and his sons place wreaths on the monument and a two minutes' silence is observed, is the most impressive public ceremony of the London year.

Chalk Farm.-There is no chalk here. The name is a corruption of Chalcot, a village which boasted a noted. tea-garden in the eighteenth century. Chalk Farm rivalled Wimbledon Common a century and more ago as a secluded duelling ground. It was a conveniently deserted spot near town. In 1803 Colonel Montgomery and Captain Macnamara met here, not to fight, as usual, about a lady, but because the dog of one of the men had met and snarled at the dog of the other. The colonel was killed and the captain severely injured. The poet Moore was ready to fight Jeffrey of the "Edinburgh Review " in 1806, but the police arrived in time and discovered, so it was said, that the pistols were loaded with blank cartridge. Byron wrote some satirical verses about this in his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.” Moore induced Byron to add a note to his poem stating that at least his (Moore's) pistol was properly loaded! Moore's own account of this interrupted duel in his diary is most amusing.

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Chancery Lane.-Called in Edward III's time" Chauncellores" Lane. It is full of legal activities. The "Mitre tavern stands on the site of a house where Izaak Walton kept a shop from 1632 to 1643, from which, no doubt, he sauntered forth with rod and line on fine May mornings. It is said that during the course of his remarkable career Cardinal Wolsey once lived in the Holborn end of Chancery Lane. Here is the Public Record Office (see Record Office).