Tottenham Court Road. 137 grotesque dancing, tumbling, &c., are all combined with the accompaniments of drinking, smoking, and conversational interludes on the part of the spectators. Hanway Street, a short cut west, noted more than a century for its cheap jewelry, old china, and second-hand ornaments, was named after Jonas Hanway, an active philanthropist, who was remarkable for being the first man in London who carried an umbrella, then (1750) considered a most effeminate article, though heavy and clumsy when compared with those of modern times. The light silk umbrella of to-day is a very different article to the tarpaulin-like protection mentioned by Gay, as used by those ladies who preferred it to a riding-hood: "Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Or underneath the umbrella's oily shed Safe through the wet, on clinking pattens tread." The "clinking pattens" have been long superseded by noiseless goloshes. TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD. At the extreme north-eastern end of Oxford Street is Tottenham Court Road, the old thoroughfare from St. Giles's to Hampstead, past the mansion of William de Totenhall or Tottenhall, which stood on the site of the Adam and Eve tavern, near the Tottenham Court turnpike, shown in Hogarth's March to Finchley.' Tottenham Court Road is a broad and long street; of late years famed for its numerous good and economical shops for upholstery, &c. Meux's Brewery— one of the most celebrated in London for stout-stands at the southeast corner next to Oxford Street. Nearly opposite to this end of Tottenham Court Road is the approach to Charing Cross Street, lately opened. Just beyond the Brewery is the Horseshoe Hotel and Restaurant. A few paces farther north is Great Russell Street, leading to the British Museum. At the point where Rathbone Place runs northwards into Tottenham Court Road, stood Percy Chapel, made popular and fashionable by the Rev. Robert Montgomery (d. 1855), known from his poem of 'Satan,' as Satan Montgomery, and thus distinguished from his contemporary, James Montgomery-a sacred poet of a much higher order. The Gladstone Club for Liberals of the district, occupies 113 Charlotte Street, a thoroughfare leading from Rathbone Place to Fitzroy Square, the headquarters for London artists. Here dwells Dick Tinto, and sets up his sitter's throne "a gentle creature, loving his friends, his cups, feasts, merry-makings, and all good things." His club, the Hogarth,' founded in 1870, is at 27 Albemarle Street. About a quarter of a mile from the end of Oxford Street stood the Prince of Wales's Theatre, built first as a concert-room, then transformed into a theatre, and known as such under various names-the Tottenham 138 Whitefield's Tabernacle. Street, the Regency, the Royal, the West London, &c., and now converted to other purposes. Towards the northern end of Tottenham Court Road is one of the most famous of dissenting chapels, Whitefield's Tabernacle, begun in 1756, and since considerably rebuilt and enlarged. Whitefield here attracted such large congregations, that it is said Queen Caroline, consort of George II., seeing so many persons unable to obtain admission, sent him a large sum of money to enlarge his meeting-house. Many extraordinary statements are upon record of the wonderful effects of Whitefield's oratory, both upon the ignorant and the highly educated. He is said to have melted the hearts and drawn tears from the eyes of the most brutalised classes; to have forced hard-headed men like Dr. Franklin, in spite of themselves, to empty their pockets into the collection plate; to have fascinated by the modulations of his voice and the appropriateness of his gestures such a finished histrionic performer as Garrick; in a word, Whitefield had natural gifts of word-painting and voice-mastery which enabled him to preach with amazing effect. It is recorded of that cold and polished courtier Lord Chesterfield, that Whitefield even stirred his pulses beyond control, when, showing the perils of a sinner, the preacher depicted such a one as resembling a blind old man, deserted by his dog, wandering feebly over a desolate moor, but gradually and surely nearing the verge of an awful precipice. Whitefield led his hearers with him so completely to the moment of the catastrophe, that Chesterfield, losing his self-possession, could not help muttering aloud, "By Jove, he's gone over!" John Wesley here preached Whitefield's funeral sermon; Toplady, author of several popular hymns, and Bacon the sculptor, were buried here. Between Bloomsbury and the Euston Road (which runs past the end of Tottenham Court Road) were the Southampton Fields, one of which was called the Field of the Forty Footsteps. It was so named from a legend of a terrible fight between two brothers, which took place here on account of a lady whom both admired, and who sat by and witnessed the deadly struggle for her hand. The Hampstead Road runs north in continuation, as we have såid, of Tottenham Court Road, on to High Street, Camden Town, where the thoroughfare divides into three ways, of which the eastern is Camden Road, the middle is Kentish Town Road, and the left or western is the Chalk Farm Road to Haverstock Hill. The broad open country of Hampstead Heath (240 acres) may be reached by railway or omnibus. Its most noted inns are 'Jack Straw's Castle' and the Spaniards.' Jack Straw commanded the Essex division of the insurgents under Wat Tyler. The origin of the title, 'Spaniards,' is disputed; the most simple explanation is that it was due to certain famous Espalier apple-trees which once flourished on this site. The name of Belsize Park was derived from the ancient family mansion Bellasys House, which in 1728 became a place of public amusement to |