London Topographical Society. Vol. III. (For the Society, at the
Chiswick Press.)—This volume includes the pro- ceedings of two Annual Meetings of the Society, addresses by Vice-Presidents (Messrs. Laurence Gomme and F. G. Hilton Price), and papers by Colonel Prideaux, Mr. J. G. Head, and Mr. Hilton Price. Perhaps the most important paper is that by Colonel Prideanx on " Seaway's Plan." Joseph Salway made the plan for the Kensington Turnpike Trust in 1811, taking in the road from Hyde Park Corner to what is now the railway bridge by Russell Road,—it than went by the name of Counter's Bridge. It enables us to mark the changes which something less than a century has wrought, and incidentally makes us acquainted with, or renews our recollections of, many persons more or less distinguished. Not a few curious things occur. What is to be said of the policy of expelling a Member convicted of bribery from the House of Commons, but allowing him to remain Master of the Rolls? Mr. Head's paper follows up the same subject in reference to another part of London, North Marylebone, a region which has been greatly changed within the last ten years by railways (the Great Central, and others) and the works of electric light companies. The Great Central Railway swept away houses which had been occupied by Mrs. Siddons (1817-1881), George Eliot, Sir Edwin Landseer (1825-1873), Henry Huxley (who was succeeded by John Tyndall), Wilson Barrett, St. George Mivart, and Sir W. Sterndale Bennett. Mr. Hilton Price writes on "Old London Signs," in days when most trades had their signs.
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