The return of Baedeker is something of an event. One
or two volumes of the new Baedeker on Germany have, I believe, appeared already. But the one on London was only published last week (by Allen and Unwin at 15s.). It has the old familiar red cover (but without the old familiar rounded edges) and the old familiar type and. arrangement. It tells the visitor to London everything he needs to know, and even the lifelong resident might not have realised (for example) that " the first Lord's was opened by Thomas Lord in 1787 at Dorset Square, and the turf was transferred to St. John's Wood in 1814 ' (Wisden, however, tells a rather different story) ; or that " The Theatre," the first in England, was built in .1577 and pulled down in 1598, to be re-erected as the famous Globe in Southwark (" pronounced Suthuk ") ; or that, whereas the Metropolitan Police wear blue and white armlets, the City Police wear red and white. And what prospective visitor to the National Portrait Gallery will not be grateful for the thoughtful reminder.'" There are no lavatories " —in fact, only pictures. An assiduous search for errors has so far revealed only, " Its [Westminster Hall's] hammer-beams terminate in figures of angles." Non anguli sed angeli.
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