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intended to protect the foot-pavements from wet at all seasons, and to produce an architectural whole that should at once be novel and capable of producing a great variety of light and shade. The varied effects consequent on this arrangement are not generally noticed; but the artist, or those persons who can enjoy the continual and rapid changes which occur on a sunny day amidst this "intricacy of stems," will not view them without pleasure.

The County Fire-office, represented on the left of the engraving, is after the model of the Strand front of old Somerset House, as erected by Inigo Jones: there are variations in it from that example, but not sufficient to interest any but connoisseurs or professional observers.

The New Street—for by that general term the whole line from Charing Cross to the Regent's Park may be designated—has greatly interested foreigners; and we can best judge of the effect produced upon their minds, after taking into consideration the circumstances of other countries and our own, and then deliberately passing through London from the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge, by Parliament Street, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, Regent Street, and Portland Place, and finishing our excursion with the villas on the western side of the Regent's Park.