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232 whose care so much is due, where all work together with common enthusiasm for the public good. But a word must be said of that admirable Surveyor of the Royal Parks and Palaces, Mr. Edward Jesse, who, more than any man, made the experiment of the free opening to the public a success. He wrote a charming little "Summer Day at Hampton Court," which very pleasantly expresses his interest, his knowledge, and his activity. Sir Henry Cole revised an earlier guide, under the nom de plume of "Felix Summerly," and Mr. Ernest Law has re-issued it with the improvements which his own knowledge has enabled him to add.

Hampton Court to-day appeals to the visitor in two different aspects. It is the holiday-ground of thousands of Londoners, and it is in this light that travellers and foreign critics regard it with pleasure and a little wonder. Thousands of orderly folk, merry, and not very attentive to historic association or even natural beautv, make sport and play here, as to the manner born. "As some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces," said the good Vicar of Wakefield: it is a happiness many a parish priest and many a philanthropist can now enjoy to the full at Hampton Court.

But this is not the only sight or the only thought. Hampton Court belongs to-day not only to the present but to the mighty past. Still a royal palace, with its guard of honour, its chapel royal, its chaplain and