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Two houses have been demolished, and an addition erected for the Electric Generating Company, which seems somewhat peculiar, as all the tenants are virtually under notice to quit. In Church Street, nearly opposite, leading from Millbank Street, to the east end of the church of St. John the Evangelist in Smith Square, some houses (about four or five) were at the end of the year being demolished. They were of no particular merit, nearly all let out in tenements, but one of them had been the residence of several Westminster curates in the past. With these houses has been obliterated from the map of London Horse and Groom Yard, which at its Church Street end was only a thoroughfare for pedestrians; but at the other end in Wood Street it was much wider, and contained some stables, warehouses, &c. I believe that the fiat has been issued for the demolition of the greater portion of Tufton Street and the whole of Marsham Street, in the interest of an exceedingly large scheme for the reconstitution of this part of St. John's parish; but it is difficult to get any particulars, as the people are inclined to keep what information they have to themselves; at the close of the year, however, nothing had been done. In Smith Square, North Street, and Romney Street there was no change from the previous year, but the immediate future is full of uncertainty. WESTMINSTER CHANGES, 1906. WILLIAM COBBETT found it needful in his day to speak of London as a "great wen," we can hardly think what he would call it in the present day; but we may feel assured that that master of vigorous English would be at no loss for an expressive phrase to convey his impression. What would be his ideas about the changes already made and those still going on? Westminster in the past year saw a good many changes, many of them, however, merely continuations of what had been previously begun. To start with the huge pile of buildings put up by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners primarily for their own offices, and for an investment at the corner of Millbank Street and Great College Street, it may be said that outwardly the building is complete, as is also the greater portion of the internal fitting. The Commissioners have entered their new offices, and have consequently let those which they occupied in Whitehall Place for so many years, and which of late they had found terribly cramped. Some of the other offices are also in use. The first door in Great College Street is numbered 3 in that thoroughfare (why No. 1 has been overlooked is not clear), and gives access The land at the corner of Wood Street and Tufton Street was acquired at the beginning of the year by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, as its home in Delahay Street had been bought by the Government, it being within the scheme for housing some important departments. This house, which at the end of the year just closed was still in the Society's occupation, was purchased by the Government for 27,000l., but up to that time no steps had been taken towards the erection of the "suitable home in which to live, or rather from which to extend to all parts of the world." It has also been written that "no one can accuse the Society, which kept its 205th birthday last year, of having made undue haste to provide itself with a house, for it has lived for nearly 205 years, either in no house at all, or at best (during the last thirty years) in a house which it purchased, but which was not properly adapted for this work." A full description of the old house will be found in The Mission Field for February, 1906. It is claimed that the site chosen for its new home will afford ample room for a building which will enable the work to be carried on in comfort, unhampered by lack of space, for many years to come. At the corner of Tufton Street and Great College Street is the home of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. The chapel (of which the foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of London on 20 July, 1904) has been completed, and was consecrated by the same prelate on 21 July last year. He was assisted at the ceremony by the Bishop of Springfield, Illinois. The service was strictly private, as so many persons wished to be present that all had to be refusedthe building being very small. Next to the chapel stands the new building, known as the Parish Institute of St. John's. It was opened for use in December, but what may be called its official opening has been delayed, I believe, in order that the Duke of Westminster may take part in it. The building may be suitable for the purpose for which it has been designed, but to most of the casual observers the massive pillars will, I fear, give it a heavy appearance. Such a building has been long wanted, and Archdeacon Wilberforce is to be congratulated on having at last overcome the many difficulties by which its inception was beset. Its front covers one entrance to the now obliterated Black Dog Alley. Westminster. 66 W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. (To be continued.) DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY. (See 10 S. vi. 361, 402; vii. 3.) VOL. II., ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND AUTHORS. 19-25. Blenheim, written at the univ. of Oxford in 1727. 25-30. To the reverend Dr. Ayscough at Oxford, written from Paris in 1728. the congress of Soissons in 1728. Written at Paris. 31-4. To Mr. Poyntz (D.N.B.), ambassador at 34-5. Verses to be written under a picture of Mr. Poyntz. 35-8. Epistle to Mr. Pope from Rome. 1730. 38-41. To my lord Worcestershire. [Hervey] in 1730, from 41-6. Advice to a lady. 1731. 46-7. Song written in 1732. Delia was Mary Greville, eldest daughter of the Hon. Algernon Greville, wife of Shuckburgh Boughton, and mother of the eighth She was one of the bedchamber women to and ninth baronets of the family of Boughton. Queen Charlotte, died Cavendish Square, London, 1 March, 1786 (Gent. Mag., 1786, pt. i. 267). 47-8. Song written in 1733. and Lydia, written in 1732. 49-50. Damon and Delia, in imitation of Horace 51-2. Ode in imitation of Pastor Fido, written abroad in 1729. 52-4. Part of an elegy of Tibullus translated.. 1729-30. 55. Song written in 1732. 56. [Lines] Written at Mr. Pope's house at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. G-lle [Greville] in August, 1735. 57. Epigram. 57. [Lines] to Mr. West at Wickham in 1740. [Miss Fortescue, afterwards his wife]. 58-66. Set of poems addressed to Miss Lucy F 67-78. To the memory of the same lady, a monody. 1747. Gray ('Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 172) asks Wharton : "Have you seen Lyttelton's Monody on his Wife's death? there are parts of it too stiff and poetical; but others truly tender and elegiac, as one would wish." 79. Verses, part of an epitaph on the same lady. All the above are by George, first Lord Lyttelton (D.N.B.'). Nichols says that the poem addressed to Ayscough (above, pp. 25-30), Lyttelton's tutor at Oxford and later Dean of Bristol, was by Anne, sister to Lord Lyttelton, who afterwards married the Dean. Ayscough d. 16 August, 1763. 80-103. On the abuse of travelling, a canto in imitation of Spenser. Gray (Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 78), writing to Richard West, 1740, says : |