TTER XIX.

Sir John Soane's Museum, House, Antiquities, Pictures.--Hogarth's
"Rake's Progress," and the "Election."--Wonderful Economy of Room,
&c.--Greenwich; Hospital, Chapel, Paintings, and Statuary.--Queen's
Stables; Horses, Harness Room, State Carriage.--Soyer's Symposium;
Description of its Rooms.--Dinner there.

LETTER XX.

The Temple Church and its historical Associations.--Steamboat on
Thames.--View of St. Paul's from River.--St. Paul's Cathedral; its
Dome.--Statues: Johnson, Howard, Reynolds, Heber, West, Nelson.--Ascent
of the Dome and Cross.--View of London.

LETTER XXI.

Westminster Abbey.--Early History.--Associations.--Poet's
Corner.--Chapels.--Monuments and Effigies.--Coronation Chairs.--Stone
of Scone Statuary.--Sermon in Abbey by Lord John Thynne.

LETTER XXII.

Hyde Park.--St. James's and Green Park.--Regent's Park.--Squares of
London.--Northumberland House.--Sion House.--St Margaret's Church.--St.
Martin's in-the-Fields.

LETTER XXIII.

Mission House.--Lord Mayor's Day.--Royal Exchange.--Bank of
England.--London Docks.--Covent Garden Market.

LETTER XXIV.

Rev. Dr. Murray.--Dover Castle.--Passage across the Channel.--
Calais.--St. Omer.--Douai.--Arras.--Amiens.--Clermont.--Paris.--
Hotel Windsor.--A Mistake, and Loss of a Dinner.

LETTER XXV.

Gardens and Promenades.--Gayety.--Flowers.--Wrong Drawing-room.--Notre
Dame.--Interior.--Sacristy.--Robes and Relics.--Hotel de Ville.--Louvre
shut.--Paris by Moonlight.

LETTER XXVI.

Palais Royal.--Garden.--Gay Scene.--Passage d'Orleans.--House opposite
to which Henry IV. was assassinated by Ravaillac.--Moliere.--Marat and
Charlotte Corday.--Palace of the Luxembourg.--Paintings.--Gardens.--
Statuary.--Chapel.

LETTER XXVII

Hotel de Cluny; History, Associations, Interior, wonderful
Contents.--Julian's Palace of the Baths.--Mr. George Sumner.--Church
of St. Sulpice.--Statuary.--Ecclesiastical Fountain.--Bibliotheque St.
Genevieve.--Church of St. Etienne du Mont.--History.--Monuments of
Racine and Pascal.--Christening an Infant.--Church of St. Germain des
Pres, (oldest in Paris); its Restoration going on.--Tombs of Descartes,
Mabillon, Montfaucon, &c.

LETTER XXVIII.

Jardin des Plantes; Situation, History.--Cedar of Lebanon and
Palm-trees.--Menagerie.--Cuvier.--Museum of Comparative Anatomy,
&c.--Paris owes much to Henry IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis
Philippe.--Pont Neuf.--St. Bartholomew's Massacre.--Basti