Show MANY QUAINT BUILDINGS MADE FAMOUS BY THE NOVELIST localities peopled hy the geald of the master with character that appeal to all are fast disappearing from old london bleak conae ere long another of the fast vanishing localities peopled by the genius of the master novelist with characters more real tons in boma respects than their present inhabitants will be nonexistent entering inn fields from great queen street turn to the right pause at 68 and picture mr Tul kinghorn eberg aas one evening from chambers where lawyers lie like maggots in nuts imagine him walking through the inn passing beneath its ancient tudor gateway and visiting mr Snags by the law stationer in cooks court curator street with a view of ascertaining where nemo the mysterious law writer lives A little to the couth of old buildings on the west side of chancery lane are bishop a court and chichester bents the latter approached through a tunneled passage alongside the three tuna public house to the rents came the two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons who instituted through the court dived into the sols parlor and wrote with ravenous little pens on tissue paper those sensational reports of the inquest which bad just been held at that well known and popular house of entertainment the old sola arms sols is the present old ship tavern it stands at the head of the court facing it on one side and the wall of lincoln inn on the other it is certainly ancient enough and on the first floor can detill be seen the identical long low room where the coroner presided and where little lwills swills the comic vocalist presented to the harmonic meeting his admirable impersonation of that important official so far identification ia plain sailing bat where was the famous rag and bottle shop whose gin soaked proprietor died from spontaneous combustion mr rimmer in about london with dickens is silent on the subject the writer of dickens london thinka it must have stood in bishops court hard by for no other reason apparently than the fact of its being an old narrow dreary decaying and mournful passage just the place in which such people as the poor law writer and crazy miss flits would have made a home but a careful study of every allusion made by dickens to tha locality will I 1 think show that mr pemberton ia probably mistaken brooka shop ia spoken of as lying and being in the shadow of the wall blinded by the wall no house in bishops court exactly answers to this description on the contrary the only likely one at the corner next to old sols faces an open passageway which leada to new square krooks must therefore be sought for at nos 8 and J in the rents now occupied by a jaw stationer opposite the old ship fronting the court on one side andon alia either within a couple of yards off ul entirely blinded by the wall eo often referred to in the narrative misa faite meeting esther summerson and the wards in chancery ono morning in old square invited them to come and seo her lodgings so close by did ha live that slipping out at a little side gate she stopped most unexpectedly in a narrow back street star yard leading to carey street part of some courts and lanes immediately outside tho wall of the inn and she was at home she lodged in a garret at tho top of described aa blinded by the wall of Lincol ns ina which intercepted the light within a couple of yards she lived in a pretty large room from which she had a glimpse of tho roof of Lincol ns inn hall the cew one be it remembered for the old hall ia entirely shut out from view by the tall houses in old buildings itic during the visit that the poor little creature draws aside the curtain of the long low garret window and calls attention to a number of bird cages hanging there whose occupants lady jane the cat is forever striving to devour crouching on the parapet outside for hours an this is testimony ajr no other house in either couri cave the old ship possesses an attic with an outside parapet the windows ara mostly dommers dormers dor mers or flush with the wall from no other garret window except sols can a glimpse of the old hall roof he had this can readily be tested by standing dose to the ball and through the trees toward chichester bents where the slated top story and long low garret window of the rag and bottle shop may be identified in a miserable back room on tho second floor of this dismal abode captain hawdon alias memo was found dead by mr kinghorn Tul and krook dying by hia own hands from an overdose of opium to a hemmed in churchyard pestiferous and obscene they take our dear brother here departed and lower him down a foot or two on the estepa leading to this cha dame darden finds her mother with one arm creeping around a bar of the iron gate and beening to embrace it this is rather hard to find but walk up catherine street from the strand and half way up on the right turn into russell court leading into arary lane and midway to ana left of this passage pa asage is th approach to the consecrated ground the little tunnel of a court is much aa it was forty years ago but the lamp ia one and the old iron gate is not the ona depicted by H K browne children now play as best they can on the phal ted surface of tho hemmed in rea where once poor jo saw the mortal of the stranger who bad been worry good to him put into the ground werry niga the top st jamea ga adette |