Photo by F. J. Koch 



ADVERTISING TO THE EYE AND NOT TO THE EAR 



Newsboys in London are not allowed to call their papers. They stand silently and 

 advertise the contents of their papers by placards like these 



you walk in that fine procession ? You 

 must feel very proud indeed." The 

 every-day garb of the Beefeaters is as 

 comfortable as it is quaint, but the dress 

 uniform is very Elizabethan in pictur- 

 esque discomfort. "Proud is it? Proud? 

 Not I! What I thinked of when the 

 King was a-crowning was that I was 

 'orrid 'ot, and the blawsted ruff made my 

 whiskers tickle my nose till I was like to 

 sneeze." 



Now, after we have looked our fill at 

 the old White Tower, have pondered long 

 the full meaning of Traitor's Gate, let us 

 take boat — they are not especially fine 

 boats, and on holidays are apt to be 

 crowded, but we shall go on a Monday 

 and make the best of them — to that 

 stately hall at Westminster which sup- 

 plements this Tower. It is hard indeed 

 to turn our back upon the port — such a 

 port — and there will be much temptation 

 to disembark by the way. Not at Bil- 



lingsgate, certainly, redolent of fish and 

 language too forcible to be fine ; nor, in- 

 deed, anywhere in the city until we come 

 to the Temple, at its farther end. 



KNIGHTS TEMPEARS' HOME 



Here, in a pleasant place beside the 

 city, its gates opening upon the river road 

 that connected St. Paul's with Westmin- 

 ster (Fleet street and the Strand), whose 

 flowery gardens dipped down softly to 

 the sedgy river, the powerful order of 

 Knights Templar — "poor soldiers of the 

 Temple of Solomon" — made their home. 

 After the suppression of the order, in 

 13 13, the property passed to the Crown 

 and ultimately to the Knights of St. John, 

 who leased it to the "students of the com- 

 mon law," in whose hands it remains to 

 this day. 



Of the ancient buildings only the round 

 Norman church of 1185 remains, one of 

 the few in England. In it peaceful mar- 



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