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Show JOHNSON HOME AS MUSEUM Gloomy Place Where Famous Dictionary Diction-ary Wat Compiled to Become National Property. Iondon. Dr. Johnson'a gloomy eighteenth century bouse In (lough stpiare Is to become national property prop-erty as a Johnsonian museum The building, which is now marked by tablet placed there by the Society of Arts, Is the most noteworthy of alt Johnson'a linden residences. The "stout old fashioned oak Imlus-traded Imlus-traded house," as Carlyle found It eighty years ago, will need some restoring; re-storing; for Its foundations have been shaken by the printing machinery only recently taken out of the basement. base-ment. It has a typical paneled door ml niill .' y ii ' ---L r$ IP i ft 'if? Where Dr. Johnson Wrote Hit Dictionary. of the period, with carved lintel. Its walls arc of red brick, and the high I Itched roof, pierced by windows, has twin gables overshadowed by a tr.ll chimney stack. Here Johnson spent the busiest decade of his life, and here his dictionary was begun and finished He had an upper room fitted like a counting house, and here his copyists copy-ists wrote out the illustrative pas-s;igi pas-s;igi s from the various authorities, w hich Johnson lilnisi If . had marked with lead pencil. At times, but not olleu, he walked In the gaitlcn, "a plot of delved ground no longer thMn a bed quilt " Hut the house has other astioola lions than that of the dictionary. Johnson here began both the "Humbler" "Hum-bler" and the "Idler," mid here he was living when his tragedy of "Irene" was produced by (larrlck. Here alsc, his wife died. In 17a.r, when Julia son had been In Couch square sever years, the great dictionary was pub llshed. i |