Place In London: London. The appropriate place in london to end a tour of Britain is London, the English capital, for there is summed up the character of the whole country.
London is not, like New York, a metropolis alien to its own hinterland. Cosmopolitan though it is, and thronged always with thousands of foreigners, it still remains the quintessence of Brit-ishness. It is no longer the largest city in the world, but it is perhaps the most widely experienced. Dr. Johnson said of it that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." It remains for many travelers, in the words of John Gunther, "the king city of them all."
Most British people, however, regard the monarchy as a useful institution that carries out satisfactorily its traditional function of symbolizing the unity of the nation.place in london of London in British Life. If the British people are deeply united, in spite of the many divisions in British life, there are other factors that play a part. London is one. London is the capital not only of England but of the whole of Britain and of the Commonwealth. It is not only one of the greatest conurbations of the world; it is everything that a great city can be.
Richards exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, at the Paris Salon, and at various American expositions. A series of his water-color marines hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
RICHARDSON, rich'erd-s'n, SIR Benjamin Ward, English physician: b. Somerby, Leicestershire, England, Oct. 31, 1828; d. London, Nov. 21, 1896. He was educated in Scotland at Anderson College and St. Andrews University. In 1855 he moved to London and for three years was lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the School of Medicine in Grosvenor place in london. He was also lecturer on physiology there until 1865.
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