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Emily Constance Baird Cook. Highways and Byways in London
Highways and Byways in London
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
CHAPTER II. THE RIVER
CHAPTER III. RAMBLES IN THE CITY
CHAPTER IV. ST. PAUL'S AND ITS PRECINCTS
CHAPTER V. THE TOWER
CHAPTER VI. SOUTHWARK, OLD AND NEW
CHAPTER VII. THE INNS OF COURT
CHAPTER VIII. THE EAST AND THE WEST
CHAPTER IX. WESTMINSTER
CHAPTER X. KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
CHAPTER XI. BLOOMSBURY
CHAPTER XII. THEATRICAL AND FOREIGN LONDON
CHAPTER XIII. LONDON SHOPS AND MARKETS
CHAPTER XIV. THE GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, AND COLLECTIONS
CHAPTER XV. HISTORIC HOUSES AND THEIR TENANTS
CHAPTER XVI. RUS IN URBE
CHAPTER XVII. THE WAYS OF LONDONERS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STONES OF LONDON
INDEX
THE. HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS. SERIES
Footnotes
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Emily Constance Baird Cook
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The river, in old pre-embankment days, flowed at the foot of the curious ancient stone archway called "York Stairs," that stranded water-gate of old York House, which stands, lonely and neglected, in a corner of the Embankment Gardens. It has, however, survived, and that, in London, is always something. Its long buried, and now excavated, columns show the ancient level of the river, and the height to which the present Embankment has been raised. The Palace of York House, to which it was the river-gate, has gone the way of all palaces; its ruins (as all ruins must ever be in London), are thickly built over. Indeed, Somerset House is almost the only palace left to tell of the ancient river-side glories, glories of which Herrick wrote:
