WATERLOO PLACE AND PART OF REGENT STREET,

from a situation now obtained by the removal of Carlton Palace, which gives to the buildings in Waterloo Place, and those on the rising ground to where the view is terminated by the County Fire Office, a very fine effect. See plate of Waterloo Place and part of Regent Street.

I must also call your attention to another view, which was omitted for a similar reason, that of

REGENT STREET, FROM THE QUADRANT,

see plate, which begins at the round cornered pavilion-like house opposite the northern end of the Quadrant, and finishes with the cubical turretts of Mr. Cockerell's new chapel near Oxford Street. It is a view replete with picturesque architectural beauty.

Since our pleasant tour round the Regent's Park several new villas have been erected, and the scenery has so much improved, by the rapid growth of the trees and shrubs, as to have occasioned many new features in the views of this charming spot. Let me therefore call your attention to

AN ISLAND ON THE LAKE AND PART OF CORNWALL AND CLARENCE TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK,

which at this sparkling season of the year, when nature is apparelled in her gayest livery, and the silvery surface of the lake is spangled over with ever-moving gems from the inspiring rays of the sun darting through the plantations, affords a gratifying treat in a region so immersed, as it were, in the midst of the metropolis, as is the Regent's Park. See plate of an Island on the Lake and part of Cornwall and Clarence Terrace, Regent's Park. That pair of majestic swans, that isolated foreigner the black swan, and the swarms of cygnets and ducklings that are disporting on the surface of the water, add a liveliness to the scene inconceivably gratifying.

Turn your eye the other way, and at a small distance from the above enchanting spot see that majestic building, absurdly called the Colosseum, rearing its ample cupola over the trees. This

alone, without any of the numerous other great undertakings of Mr. Nash, will stamp him for a man of genius and an artist, though no one can really consider him as a great architect. See plate of the Colosseum and part of the Lake, Regent's Park. Among the villas and other recent additions just mentioned

are

SOUTH VILLA, REGENT'S PARK,

the residence of William Henry Cooper, Esq. It is raised on a basement story, sufficient to elevate its architectural parts above the plantations. These consist of a tetrastyle portico (see plate of this villa) of the Ionic order, a semicircular bow, and a due distribution of windows. It is a very pretty villa-looking house. Next is,

CHESTER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK,

a splendid row of mansions arranged like others before mentioned into a very palatial-looking structure. The triumphal arches at either end (see plates), to which I before alluded, are grand, novel and effective.

Another

VILLA IN THE REGENT'S PARK,

is that pretty composition of four three-quarter Ionic fluted columns, between two antæ, and covered with an entablature and pediment. The lower windows, formed of antæ supporting their architraves, are tasteful and effective, and do not detract from the style of the architecture. The plantation before it is also very serviceable to the architecture which it decorates (see plates of Villa in the Regent's Park, and St. Andrew's Place, Regent's Park), which is a pretty and very picturesque group occasioned by the good management of accidental effects in which Mr. Nash is so deservedly celebrated.

As the thread of our tour has been broken by the numerous additions that are daily making to our Metropolitan Improvements, which come with a rapidity too fast for my pen to describe them,