And how many people, one specula ates, can tell the way to Old Battersea House? It stands close to the Thames. Wren built it in 1700. Pope; Addison, Swift knew it. It holds examples of the tiles and lustrous pottery of William de Morgan, who, as the tablet in Chelsea Church records, recreated "in ceramic work upon his own vigorous designs the colour of the Pei and the lustre of the great Umbrian craftsmen." There are, too, the Pre-Raphaelite paintings of Evelyn de Morgan; fine furniture, an old and evocative staircase. One day the house will belong to the nation And a last word. Although most Londoners must have heard of the glorious Wallace Collection, it is probable that not one in a hundred persons among the Oxford-street shopping crowds has seen "The Laughing Fragonard's "The Swing.
yres porcelain and French furniture; the pictures, bronzes. ana glass which grace the salons of Herr. ford House. This has been compared with the Cluny and Carnavalet in Paris as "among the ideal museums of the world," but there is no well-beaten track to Manchester-square.
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