number about one hundred; they enjoy amongst themselves a kind of freemasonry, and impose laws and restrictions on the minor members of the trade.

The Chapter Coffee House, in Paternoster-row, has long been, and still is, the place where the bookselling fraternity "do chiefly congregate."

It is here they hold council on matters of business among themselves or with authors. Rivingtons is the senior publishing house; near where Dolly's chop-house now stands, once lived Tarlton, Queen Elizabeth's celebrated jester. Rivingtons' house has been established more than a century, and is devoted to the publication of "High Church" theological literature. Longmans' is the next oldest establishment, and the one that does the heaviest business in the trade. One of Longmans' earliest publications, "Drysdale's Warwickshire," folio, bears the imprint 1730.

In Lovell's Court, now forming part of the premises of the Rivingtons, Richardson wrote his "Sir Charles Grandison." Over Rivington's door may still be seen the old sign of "The Bible and Crown."

On the opposite side of the Row is Panyer-alley, which takes its name from a stone monument erected therein, on which is inscribed the figure of a pannier, across which a boy is seated, with a bunch

of grapes held between his hand and foot, beneath. which is a tablet with the following:

"When you have sought ye citie round,
Yet still this is the highest grounde.
August the 27, 1688."

Warwick-lane, which is a little lower down, takes its name from the ancient Earls of Warwick, who dwelt here.

At Newgate-street end may be seen a stone tablet, referring to the famous Earl of Warwick, who, according to Stowe, came to London at the famous convention of 1458, "with six hundred men all dressed in red jackets, embroidered with ragged staves, before and behind, and was lodged in Warwick-lane; in whose house there were often six oxen eaten at a breakfast, and every tavern was full of his meat; for he that had any acquaintance in that house, might have there so much of sodden and roast meat as he could prick and carry upon a long dagger."

The butchers of Newgate Market, leading from Warwick-lane, who are thickly colonized there,to the great discomfort of the neighboring purveyors of intellectual meat, the booksellers-may possibly have chosen this location for the purpose of doing honor to the memory of the redoubtable Earl and his gormandizing army.

At the corner of St. Paul's Churchyard lived Mr. Newberry, the famous bookseller to the Juveniles. The house is now occupied by a successor, who caters to their fancy with a greater display than his renowned predecessor. 7*

Johnson the Bookseller-St. Paul's Cathedral-Its Interior-MonumentsAnecdote of Dr. Donne-View from the Summit of St. Paul's-Anniversary of the Charity Children in St. Paul's-St. Paul's ChurchyardDoctors' Commons-Heralds' College-St Paul's School, CheapsideBread-street-Guildhall-The Poultry-Old Jewry-The Mansion House -Bank of England-St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook-Lombard-street -St. Mary's, Woolnoth-St. Olave's Church-St. Mary's, Aldermanbury -St. Magnus'-St. Augustine's--The Royal Exchange-Lloyds' - The North and South American Coffee House-Garraway's Coffee House -Pope's Head Alley-St. Peter's, Cornhill-South Sea House-Aldgate -East India House.

EFORE we take leave of the booksellers, we might mention that at No. 72 St. Paul's Churchyard, lived

Johnson, the publisher of Cowper's "Task." It may be remembered that notwithstanding it was almost universally denounced by the literary censorship of the day,

yet, such was the superior critical acumen of worthy bibliopolist, that he had the courage to this publish the subsequent poems of Cowper, and the satisfaction of sustaining his own and reversing public opinion in their favor.

St. Paul's Cathedral-the most magnificent religious edifice of the City-occupies classic ground. On its site once stood a heathen temple;

a Christian Church was founded A. D. 610, by Ethelbert; and after this, the old cathedral which was destroyed in the Great Fire.

Old St. Paul's abounded with historical associations, and contained the ashes of many illustrious personages. Paul's Cross, which stood in front of the western porch, was memorable as being the place at which royal marriages were announced; and among the number that of Henry VII. It was at Paul's Cross that the illustrious martyrs, Latimer and Ridley, were accustomed to deliver their powerful appeals in behalf of the reformed religion. In 1588, Queen Elizabeth, it will be remembered, went in state to the Cathedral to return thanks for the destruction of the "Invincible Armada." The last time that a sermon was preached at Paul's Cross in the presence of royalty, was in 1630, before Charles the First. In 1643, the Long Parliament voted the destruction of the different crosses in London, as being offensive relics of Popery. The same year, during the civil wars, the Cathedral was doomed to havoc and desecration, and during the Great Fire, it was wholly sacrificed by the devouring element. The present magnificent structure was commenced in 1675, and completed in 1710; the grandest monument of architectural skill ever achieved by a single indi