The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831

THE STRAND, ANCIENT AND MODERN

THE LAST WISH

HALCYON DAYS

ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH TITLE "DUKE OF CLARENCE."

YES, WE SHALL MEET AGAIN

WHO WAS KATERFELTO?

THE CHEROOT

STORY OF A BOY

THE NATURALIST

ANECDOTES OF A TAME HAWK

THE NOVELIST

NIGHT IN A TURKISH CEMETERY

THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES

SACRIFICE OF A MORISCOE GIRL

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

MUSICAL LITERATURE IN NORTH AMERICA

HENRY MACKENZIE, ESQ

THE GATHERER

ARCH POETRY

DOUBTING

CURIOUS ANECDOTE OF A PICTURE

MEMORY

ROYAL PLEASURE

DEXTEROUS SHAVING

SELF ILLUSTRATION

LORD BYRON

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We have often, in our antiquarian notices of the Metropolis, touched upon the olden topography of COVENT GARDEN and THE STRAND, and illustrated our pages with some portion of its history. Thus, in vol. xii. p. 40, the "regular subscriber" will find, an Engraving, and descriptive notes of Old Covent Garden: in vol. xiii. p. 122, he will find a second notice of the same spot; and in the same volume, p. 241, is a whole-page Engraving of the original Somerset House, with ample details of its foundation, the neighbouring district, &c. The reader should turn to these pages, and re-read them in connexion with the few particulars we have now to add.

To aid the first Engraving, with the Strand Cross and Covent Garden, we may quote that—

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ANNE R.

Perhaps some of your curious readers would oblige me with a little information concerning the personage mentioned in these lines of Cowper:—

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