ld
know but little of Beloe; but, having read his slanderous book, Mr.
R., who is a sound scholar, an orthodox clergyman, and a most
animated writer, would have done well not to have written a sort of
postscript. From motives of regard and respect for Beloe's amiable
widow, Dr. Parr abstained from refuting B.'s wicked falsehoods; but
Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury, repelled them very ably in the 'Monthly
Review.'"

At No. 46 Brompton Row, Mr. John Reeve, an exceedingly popular low
comedian, died, on the 24th of January, 1838, at the early age of forty.
Social habits led to habits of intemperance, and poor John was the
_Bottle Imp_ of every theatre he ever played in. "The last time I saw
him," says Mr. Bunn, in his 'Journal of the Stage,' "he was posting at a
rapid rate to a city dinner, and, on his drawing up to chat, I said,
'Well, Reeve, how do you find yourself to-day?' and he returned for
answer, 'The lord-mayor _finds_ me to-day!'"

BROMPTON GROVE commences on the south, or left-hand side of the main
Fulham Road, immediately beyond the Red Lion (before mentioned as
opposite to 28 Brompton Row), and continues to the Bunch of Grapes
public-house, which was pulled down in August, and rebuilt in September,
1844, opposite to No. 54 Brompton Row, and in the wall of which
public-house was placed a stone, with "YEOMAN'S ROW, 1767," engraved upon
it--the name of a street leading to the "Grange," and, in 1794, the
address of Michael Novosielski, the architect of the Italian Opera House.
In that year he exhibited, in the Royal Academy, three architectural
designs, viz:--

"558. Elevation of the Opera House, Haymarket;

"661. Section of the New Concert Room at the Haymarket; and

"663. Ceiling of the New Concert Room at the Opera House."

But of Novosielski and the Grange more hereafter.

Brompton Grove now consists of two rows of houses, standing a little way
back from the main road, between which rows there was a green space
(1811), now occupied by shops, which range close to the footway, and have
a street, called Grove Place, in the centre.

_Upper Brompton Grove_, or that division of the Grove nearest London,
consists of seven houses, of which No. 4 was the abode of Major Shadwell
Clerke, who has reflected literary lustre upon the 'United Service,' by
the able and judicious manner in which he conducted for so many years the
periodical journal distinguished by that name. Major Clerke di