Show Disappearing Front the City the Thames Lo Lonon In s great so boundless the face ot it Is constantly it change That the changes are In the rity of cases for tl there Is no doubt but when the hand of the Improver falls It strikes ily and there is hardly an improve ment of some sort or other not rob London of a And s it is with the London which Charles Dickens loved so But really there 18 very little of Dickens London to us nowadays i The geat without there however mind are wont to fondly gaze and fancy that Nell really did live there at the Old Curiosity She off but there is i t one shred of evidence to prove this vas the home of that sweet child and hor grandfather rho house is doomed and when It has away one of the de of Charles Dickens will have passed away too and it W Ware are not the poorer for I n that r ve mourn loss as a vanished bit of Old London Spots Lant at least that Part Q it where Dickens lived as a boy and where Bob Sawyer held his memorable party has gone so hi the Marshal Marshalsea sea prison of Little Dorrit fame lUt lUta a tablet is still there to record the fact lIt church where Little Thor Thornt nt slept on the night of her party and where she was afterward married still stands London bridge steps hg in Oliver iii by the recent still there The curious little a great place like Inns f mostly still with ua It is truc that Inn has altogether and a groat loss to Dickens London it Is for here the young novelist had chambers and here was written Yet for all that Inn is not mentioned in the novel It Gys Inn that occasioned the remark of Mr Pick wick that the Inns of Court were curt ous little nooks in a great place like London and it was here up two pairs of steep and dirty stairs that Mr Parker the little attorney Grays inn has not much changed since then In outward appearance being somewhat dIstant now the center of legal London it is not o favored by lawyers as it was when the pages of Pickwick were written Almost and behind the most ancient part of HolbOrn LondO where certain gabled houses some cen tunes of age still stand looking upon the public way as if disconsolately hooking for Old Bourne that has long longrun run dry is a little composed of I two irregular quadrangles called Sta Stapie pie inn These inns are the only real parts of I Dickens London left us that are stihi preserved ar almost Intact Staple Jim is no exception Dickens have had a great fondness for tiit Inns of Court for almost exception we find mention of e or less In every one hooks Grays inn finds a place in his I novel Staple Inn iii his last lastA A Nook i can conceive no more spot in all London than Inn Hon leng It nIl remain hidden away I Ithe the handful of bulging old houses I dc I o are continually hear lug that tile old houses on Holborn arc I doomed and when the fall Staple lam L will fall too The old work I famous but not so Stape Inn Why not but the average Is pm hardly aware theme Is I Ip a place It is one of those nooKs p continues Dickens the turning Int I which from tho clashing street hn parts to the relieved i mm of having put cotton i ii oars and velvet solos on his boots Ii I 11 one of those nooks where a lea smoky twitter In lear r trees as thought they called to one an another other Let us play at country anc I a few feet of mold anc I Ia a fe yards of gravel enable them tie that refreshing violence to L tiny understandings Moreover It ii a aone one of those nooks which arc lega 1 nooks and mt contains hail wiLl 1 a I tle lantern in Its roof to what oh purpose devoted and a expense this history i inot not Parsing from the outer quadrangle passing the treb and the birds iv C time quadrangle where Ii I the lefthand corner we hind the se t of chambers presenting in black am I Iwhite white over its ugly portals the inscription j P which moan Perhaps Jolt a or Perhaps Joe Tyler Her C CIr Ir u lived Thera Is a ful memory attaching itself to S in Staple mu It was the las St t vt many London houses 1 Charles Dickens It is the omil y now Adjacent to Staple inn is Barnard inn which Pip described as the din collection of shabby building a ever squeezed together In a rank cot nor as a club for tomcats in thea C was C disembodied bodied spirit or a fiction amid eve ii iii i Is very much time same Thor C is not much of Barnard left he I 5 incorporated with a school and hi ii inn Is no more There Is still another Inn left o Inn from which Mrm 1 addressed long epistles jq Ui 0 world on the subject of Olin leaving her children in general t 0 themselves amid little In particular ular to get his bead fixed U area railings Thavies inn is still of high like a a 4 oblong to bold the fog an ii there are area railings galore for Ui little of today to come to grim ir Time at Charing Crom IS has undergone many changes stat e May 13 1827 Mr an ml his friends on theIr able journey the low 1 through which the coach passed call I lug forth the warning of Mr S heads heads take care of yet ir been put to more modem a auses uses Hungerford stairs have goni and the blacking factory too We am 0 not far off the abbey now 0 Charles DIckens sleeps his last sloe p In the companionship of our LI dead |