The residence of earl Grosvenor; of the wings of this palatial residence is completed, and forms the picture gallery. It is a magnificent building of stone of Roman architecture; the order the Corinthian of the Temple of the Sybils; the elevation is in portions, in advance of the other; it commences with a rusticated stylobate sustaining columns and antae, engaged with the main wall of the building and crowned with their entablature; in the intercolumniations are blank windows of the Palladian school, fronted with ballustrades and crowned with pediments; above each is a sunk pannel containing a festoon of foliage; the entablature is surmounted by a blocking course broken by pedestals, which are carried up to a convenient height and finished with vases; the intervals between the pedestals are occupied with a ballustrade: this may be described as the portion; this part of the design which is advanced a trifling degree before the other, only differs in having columns substituted for the antae of the other portion; the entablature is here surmounted by an attic crowned with a ballustrade; the face of the wall is pannelled, and on pedestals placed on the cornice of the principal order, corresponding in number and situation with the columns, are

, Old and New, have long been celebrated as a fashionable lounge. These , in fact, form only street, leading from on the south, to on the north, about half a mile, or somewhat better. In the Weekly Journal for June , it is observed that,

the new buildings between

Bond-street

and Mary-le-bone go on with all possible diligence; and the houses even let and sell before they are built. They are already in great forwardness.

Could the builders have supposed their labours would have produced a place so extremely fashionable, they might probably have deviated once at least from their usual parsimony, by making the way rather wider; as it is at present, coaches are greatly impeded in the rapidity of their course, but this is a fortunate circumstance for the

Bond-street

loungers, who are by this defect granted glimpses of the fashionable and generally titled fair that pass and repass from

two

till

five

o'clock; and for their accommodation the stand of hackney coaches was removed though by straining a point in the power of the commission.

does not contain many houses of the nobility, being almost filled with fashionable shops; here are several large rooms occasionally used as exhibition rooms for works of art and other subjects.

A few feel eastward of , and on the south side of , is

[] Nightingale's Beauties of England, x. pt. iv. p. 675.