Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater

A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the past--this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he died. The Ionic portico was imitated from that of Minerva Polias at Priene. In the interior was a painting of Christ's Agony in the Garden, by Northcote, presented 1828 by the British Institution.