Photo by F. J. Koch 



A STUDENT : LONDON 



London fogs and the smoke nuisance are not of recent origin. In 1806 the people 

 petitioned Edward I to put an end to the smoke nuisance and he promptly made it a capital 

 crime to use sea coal for domestic purposes. But London smoke still persists. 



formula. One wishes he had not. It mat- 

 ters the less here, however ; the interest 

 is in people, not places. So much history 

 has been made here, so much suffering 

 endured, so much hope and happiness 

 ended. Down to the time of Charles II 

 the court frequently resided here — in a 

 building now gone. Little children were 

 born here ; others died. 



THE EATE^UE WATER-GATE 



It is not so much these who twist our 

 heartstrings ; it is those who came in 

 state barges by the water-gate to leave 

 no more. Doubtless some deserved their 

 fate ; not all were innocent and good ; 

 but the burden of their sorrow is upon 

 us. Sir Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, 

 Catharine Howard, Lord Somerset, Lady 



Jane Grey and her husband — all died 

 either here or upon the scaffold on Tower 

 Hill and are buried in the sad little 

 church of St. Peter ad Vincula, within 

 the walls — the saddest little church and 

 graveyard possible, for here were buried 

 not only youth and life and love, but 

 faith and honor. 



Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned 

 here ; the little sons of Edward IV were 

 murdered here ; the Duke of Clarence 

 died in his butt of malmsey in one of 

 these many towers. But others there were 

 more fortunate, as Arabella Stuart and 

 the Princess (afterward Queen) Eliza- 

 beth, who came out once more to life and 

 freedom. And now, having made our- 

 selves as cheerfully sad as possible, let 

 us go out on the embankment, which now 



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