Timbs's mansion. One of the drawing-rooms is a fac-simile of a chamber which our host visited at Pompeii. Vases, candelabra, chairs, tables to correspond. He lighted a perfumed pastille modelled from Vesuvius. As soon as the cone of the mountain began to blaze I found myself an inhabitant of the Humorists, devoted city. . . .' There must be some mistake in this record; the house in Charles Street on the north side is certainly not a mansion, but a dwelling of moderate size, and the Running Footman public house. vol. ii.: James Smith. At the time of the publication of 'Zanoni,' in 1841, Bulwer was living at No. 1 Park Lane, in a house since rebuilt. Dr. Charles J. B. Williams, in his 'Recollections,' published in 1884, thus speaks of Bulwer, who was one of his patients : When I visited him at his residence in Park Lane, even on entrance at the outer door, I began to find myself in an atmosphere of perfume, or rather of perfume mixed with tobacco fume. On proceeding further through a long corridor and anteroom the fume waxed stronger, and on entrance to the presence chamber, on a divan at the further end, through a haze of smoke loomed his lordship's figure, wrapt in an Oriental dressing-robe, with a colored fez, and half reclined upon the ottoman. In 1843 Bulwer occupied Craven Cottage at Fulham, on the banks of the Thames, just beyond the Bishop of London's Meadows. It stood in 1885, a complete but picturesque ruin, and must have been, in its day, a very remarkable specimen of fantastic architecture, embracing the Persian, Gothic, Moorish, and Egyptian styles. In the library Bulwer is said to have written more than one of his novels. He lived later in life at No. 12 Grosvenor Square, on the north side. He died at Torquay, and was buried from his own house, Grosvenor Square, in Westminster Abbey. His favorite club was the Athenæum, on the southwest corner of Pall Mall and Waterloo Place. JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688. OHN BUNYAN during his lifetime had few associations those of the author of 'Robinson Crusoe' in the Cemetery of Bunhill Fields. He made occasional professional visits to town, however, when he usually preached in the meetinghouse in Zoar Street, Southwark, 'near the sign of the Faulcon' (see SHAKSPERE). This Zoar Chapel was about one hundred feet from Gravel Lane, on the left hand of the street going towards that lane. It was used as a wheelwright's shop after Bunyan's time; and when it was destroyed, its pulpit was carried to the Methodist Chapel in Palace Yard, Lambeth. Bunyan gathered together congregations of three thousand persons on Sundays, and twelve or fifteen hundred on week days. There is a tradition that he had lodgings at one time on London Bridge, but there seems to be but little foundation for the story. While he was on one of these visits to town, in 1688, he died at the house of his friend Mr. Strudwick, a grocer, at the Sign of the Star on Snow Hill.' Robert Philips, in his 'Life of Bunyan' (chap. xlv.), quotes, from a manuscript in the Library of the British Museum, the following account of his death: Taking a tedious journey in a slabby, rainy day, and returning late to London, he was entertained by one Mr. Strudwick, a grocer on Snow Hill, with all the kind endearments of a loving friend, but soon found himself indisposed with a kind of shaking, as it were an ague, which increasing to a kind of fever, he took to his bed, where, growing worse, he found that he had not long to last in this world, and therefore prepared himself for another, towards which he had been journeying as a PILGRIM and Stranger upon earth the prime of his days. Snow Hill, in the seventeenth century, is described as having been a circuitous highway, between Holborn Bridge and Newgate, very narrow, very steep, and very dangerous. Pink, in his History of Clerkenwell,' believes that the house. in which Bunyan died must have been removed when Skinner Street was formed, in 1802, if it existed so long as that. Skinner Street ran by the south side of St. Sepulchre's Church, but was itself wiped out of existence when the Holborn Viaduct was built. It would appear, therefore, that the Sign of the Star was directly under the eastern pier of the Viaduct. An altar tomb with his recumbent figure upon it, on the southern side of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Road, has been erected to Bunyan's memory, although there seems to be some doubt as to where he was actually buried there. Philips' Life of Bunyan, chap. xlvi. He was interred at first in the back part of that ground known as 'Baptists' Corner.' The tradition (and I think the probability) is, that his friend Mr. Strudwick 'had given commandment concerning his bones' that they should be transferred to the present vault whenever an interment took place. . . . It does not say, however, that Bunyan is underneath; and I know persons of respectability who affirm that he is not there. One gentleman assures me that the coffin was shown to him in another vault in quite another quarter of the ground. On the other hand, the nephew of the late chaplain of Bunhill Fields informs me that his uncle invited him to see Bunyan's coffin in Strudwick's vault; and the son of the late Manager of the Graves always understood his father to mean, when he said 'that Bunyan was not buried there,' that it was not his original grave. EDMUND BURKE. 1730-1797. BURKE arrived in London in 1750, and kept terms regularly in the Middle Temple. Of the details of his early life and struggles he rarely spoke; and almost nothing is known, except that he lived at 'The Pope's Head, over the shop of Jacob Robinson, bookseller and publisher, just within the Inner Temple Gateway,' and that shortly after his marriage, in 1756, he lived in Wimpole Street, Oxford Street. The shop of Jacob Robinson has now disappeared, although just within the adjoining Middle Temple Gateway was, in 1885, a curious old house, occupied by a firm of law stationers, who were doing a business which their sign declared to have been established two hundred years.' Robinson's shop was on the west side of the Gateway, next the Rainbow Tavern, and was numbered afterwards 16 Fleet Street. In 1764 Burke was living in Queen Anne Street, Oxford Street, and watching the debates in the House of Commons from the Strangers' Gallery. In 1780 he occupied a house in Westminster, one side of which, according to Walcott in his 'Memorials of Westminster,' contained an arch of the eastern wall of the Old Gate leading into Dean's Yard.' This was a portion of the famous Gate House in which were confined so many illustrious state prisoners. It stood at the end of Tothill Street, covering considerable space on each side of that thoroughfare, and extending from Dean's Yard to the site of the Westminster Hospital. Burke's house here was taken down some years ago. In 1781 Burke had removed to the more fashionable neighborhood of St. James's Square. St. James's From St. James's Square we pass eastward into Charles Street, Jesse's Lon- interesting from its having been for a time the residon, vol. i dence of Burke. It was here [in 1781] that Crabbe addressed to him that touching letter, and was admitted to that affectionate interview which happily so revolutionized the poet's fortunes. Square. In 1787 Burke lived at No. 37 Gerard Street, Soho, in a house marked by the tablet of the Society of Arts. In 1793 he lodged at No. 6, and in 1794 at No. 25, Duke Street, St. James's, in houses greatly changed since his day. He died at Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. Burke's earliest flights of oratory were made in a debatingclub held in the Robin Hood Tavern, Essex Street, Strand, of which no trace is now left. He was in after years a member of Brooks's Club, No. 60 St. James's Street, and an original member of The Club (see JOHNSON). He was also frequently to be found at The Tully's Head, Dodsley's Shop, No. 51 Pall Mall (see AKENSIDE). SAMUEL BUTLER. 1612-1680. BUTLER'S life in London was neither happy nor prosper ous, and but few records are left of his existence here. He is believed to have had chambers at one time in Gray's Inn, although he was not a member of that Society. His later years were passed in poverty, and he died in Rose |