Within, all was refinement and good taste; there were flowers in the windows, the furniture was plain and substantial, while great simplicity reigned supreme. The house had two stories and a basement. On the first floor were two drawing-rooms, a small reception room, a dining-room, and Mr. Lewes's study. The second floor contained the study of George Eliot, which was a plain room, not large. Its two front windows looked into the garden, and there were bookcases around the walls, and a writingdesk. All things about the house indicated simple tastes, moderate needs, and a plain method of life. 'George Eliot' was married to John Walter Cross at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, May 6, 1880, but died in her husband's house, No. 4 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, December 22 of the same year, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. The grave, in the new portion of the cemetery overlooking London, is covered by a plain gray granite shaft bearing the following simple inscription : — 10 'Of those immortal dead who still live on Born 22nd November, 1819 JOHN EVELYN. 1620-1706. EVELYN'S earliest recorded associations with London are of the Middle Temple. I repaired with my brother to the Tearme to go into the new lodgings (that were formerly in Essex Court), being a very Evelyn's handsome apartment just over against the Hall Court, Diary, 1640. but four payre of stayres high, w'ch gave us the advantage of the fairer prospect. Evelyn was married in 1647; and an entry in his Diary, the next year, shows him to have been then a resident of Sayes Court, Deptford, which came to him through his wife, and was his home for almost half a century. Oct. 7, 1665. Then to Mr. Evelyn's . . . and here he showed me his gardens, which are, for variety of evergreens and hedged holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life. Pepys's Nov. 5, 1665. — By water to Deptford, and there made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things, showed me some excellent paintings in little, in distemper, in Indian incke, Diary, 1665. water colours, graeving, and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tints, and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it. . . . In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others. Sayes Court was near the Government Docks at Deptford. It was taken down, according to Lysons, in 1728 or 1729, and the Workhouse built upon its site. This poor-house, looking much older than its actual age, and believed by many of the residents in Deptford to have been the original house occupied by Evelyn and by Peter the Great, was still standing in 1885, at the end of the modern Czar Street, Evelyn Street, and was the home of poor old men and women, subjects of the private charity of W. J. Evelyn, Esq., the proprietor of the estate. A small patch of ground used. as the garden of this house was all that was left, in anything like their natural state, of Evelyn's famous plantations, while a larger portion had been transformed into a public recreation ground, reached from Evelyn Street by Sayes Court Street. Evelyn's hedges, orangeries, and groves had all disappeared. Evelyn, through his Diary, is easily traced to his various abiding-places in town. Sept. 10, 1658. I came with my wife and family to London; tooke lodgings at the 3 Feathers in Russell Street, Covent Garden, for all the winter, my sonne being very unwell. No trace of the sign of the Three Feathers is to be found to-day. March 24, 1662. I returned home with my whole family, which had been most part of the winter since October at London in lodgings, neere the Abbey of Westminster. Nov. 17, 1683. I took a house in Villiers Street [Strand], York Buildings, for the winter, having many important concerns to despatch, and for the education of my daughters. " In 1686 he came to lodge at Whitehall in the Lord Privy Seales Loddgings. He spent the winter of 1690 in Soho Square, then King's Square. July 19, 1699. — Am now removing my family to a more convenient house here, in Dover Street, where I have the remainder of a lease. Peter Cunningham, consulting the rate books of St. Martin's, discovers this house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, to have been about 'nine doors up, on the east side.' Evelyn, in 1654, described the Mulberry Gardens in St. James's Park, on the site of which stands the northern Within, all was refinement and good taste; there were flowers in the windows, the furniture was plain and substantial, while great simplicity reigned supreme. The house had two stories and a basement. On the first floor were two drawing-rooms, a small reception room, a dining-room, and Mr. Lewes's study. . . The second floor contained the study of George Eliot, which was a plain room, not large. Its two front windows looked into the garden, and there were bookcases around the walls, and a writingdesk. All things about the house indicated simple tastes, moderate needs, and a plain method of life. 'George Eliot' was married to John Walter Cross at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, May 6, 1880, but died in her husband's house, No. 4 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, December 22 of the same year, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. The grave, in the new portion of the cemetery overlooking London, is covered by a plain gray granite shaft bearing the following simple inscription: 'Of those immortal dead who still live on |