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Show Sights of London That Linger in the Memory Perhaps there is no city in the world about which more books have been written than London. There are a thousand Londons those found in Limehouse, Rotton row, Blooms-bury, Blooms-bury, Cheapside, Fetticoat lane, the Strand, West end, Leicester square, Whiteeliapel one could go on endlessly end-lessly just writing the names of the streets and neighborhoods in London that have been made famous by an army of poets and novelists. But merely because London is so vast, endless and varied, only the outstanding sights of that fascinating fascinat-ing city can be described in these short articles. There are, for instance, the White-hail White-hail Horse Guards. The ceremony of mounting the guard, which takes place every morning in front of this historic old place, never fails to attract at-tract a crowd. The moment the new mounted soldiers in their brightly colored uniforms relieve their fellows and get into position they are like men of stone, and their horses seem to be also of stone neither ever seems to move to the slightest degree. de-gree. Only specially privileged persons are permitted to drive through the gateway and arch. Beyond there lies the Horse Guards' parade, where every year, on the king's birthday, the magnificent military spectacle, "Trooping the Colors," is performed before his majesty. And yet, as interesting as are Whitehall and the other famous sights such . as the National gallery with its scores of masterpieces of art, the unmatchable British museum, mu-seum, Big Ben, the houses of parliament parlia-ment and Buckingham palace, none of them are the London you remember remem-ber after you have left her vast midst. |