fairly, and without any unnecessary display of controversial feeling, though
it is evident that he regrets the change of belief which caused the decay or neglect of some of the most interesting of the objects he
describes. His volume is arranged in nine "Walks," four of which wore occupied with the ecclesiastical memorials of the City of London and of the adjoining parts of Southwark. A fifth takes the inquirer down to Whitehall ; a sixth conducts the author about Westminster and Lambeth; and the river-side, Western and Northern London, and East London beyond the City, furnish each materials for separate chapters. Many interesting anecdotes of historical persons and events are intro- duced by the way, and the result is a very pleasing and readable little book. We notice that the words, "I have denied my Lord with Peter, but I have not learned to weep with Peter," are attributed to Bishop Gardiner, in his repentance of the part which he had once taken against the Holy See. We have always supposed them to have been spoken by Cardinal Beaufort.
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