CHAPTER IX. CHARING CROSS.

The Gunpowder Plot--Lord Herbert’s Chivalry--A Schoolboy Legend--Goldsmith’s Audience--Dobson Buried in a Garret--Charing--Queen Eleanor--A Brave Ending-- Great-hearted Colonel Jones--King Charles at Charing Cross--A Turncoat--A Trick of Curll’s--The Cock Lane Ghost--Savage the Poet--The Mews--The Nelson Column--The Trafalgar Square Fountains--Want of Pictures of the English School--Turner’s Pictures--Mrs. Centlivre of Spring Gardens--Maginn’s Verses--The Hermitage at Charing Cross--Ben Jonson’s Grace--The Promised Land pp. 190-238