Show pull down famous house american tourists soon will loob look in vain for the albany the famous build ing just off piccadilly london which in its time has housed so many geniuses it is about to be pulled down and with it will perish a most inter esting part of literary london ever since 1804 the albany has been re downed as a residence for unmarried men of talent or title occasionally of both lord macaulay lived and wrote there and so did byron and lord bul bill lytton the novelist the youthful gladstone after he left oxford be came one of the bachelors of the al bany as they were called and other former residents were george can ning the statesman and orator lord brougham Brough arn and sir charles napier the great general |