CARLYLE HOUSE. 

This picture shows the house iu Chevne Row, Chelsea, which was the home of Thomas Carlyle from 1834 until his death in 1881. It is distinguished by an excellent medallion portrait, and it has now been converted into a permanent Carlyle Museum, which was opened in 1895, the centenary of the great man's birth. Carlyle himself wrote to his wife, on taking possession of the house, that it was "probably the best we have ever lived in - a right old strong, roomy brick house, built nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, and likely to see three races of these modern fashionables fall before it comes down." "We lie safe at a bend of the river," he also wrote, "and see nothing of London except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great Babylon."

CHEYNE WALK, Chelsea (Map 11) is  a bit of old London, with its quaint old fashioned houses and its row of noble trees. The picturesque aspect has not been much destroyed by the Thames Embankment, which now runs in front of it. Cheyne-row is still picturesque and quiet, and the abode of many artists and sculptors. The interest in it will always be centred in Thomas Carlyle, whose statue is at one end, and whose house, No. 24, where he lived from 1834 until his death in 1881, is opened as a Memorial Museum. There is a touch of pathos about this residence, in the light of the history of its occupants, "The Sage of Chelsea" and his wife. Most of his books were written here. Everything of interest is preserved in it as it was in their lifetime, so that if you have been under the influence of his writings and have followed his hammering out the problems of life with torrents of burning words, you are likely to visit here, this unpretentious house, with a feeling of almost reverence - and perhaps return home and take down his books and read them again with a closer interest. The admission to the house is 1s., Sat. 6d. (open from 10 till sunset). NEAREST Ry. Stn. is probably South Kensington. Omnibuses through King's-rd, Chelsea, pass within a short distance of both Cheyne walk and row.