GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
more formidable ceremony, we are assured, than going to kiss a 
young Queen’s hand. There might be seen Lord Melbourne, 
Lord John Russell, Palmerston, Guizot, and notabilities by the 
Jegion—and the garden itself was a perennial joy! Lord Jeffreys 
describes “‘ a sweet walk under the cedars . . . . where he listened 
in vain for the nightingales, though Lord Holland and Allen chal- 
lenged them to answer by divers fat and asthmatical whistles.” 
This was in 1840, the year of Lord Holland’s death, which 
brought to a sudden close the most wonderful chapter in the 
remarkable history of Holland House. Such another era the world 
can never see again, unless one gifted like the third Lord Holland 
should arise, capable of attracting a company as brilliant as that 
which he gathered round him in the earlier half of the nineteenth 
century, to a house as picturesquely and historically interesting. 
