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For it will stand for English growth, English achievement, the accumulated power and renown and dignity of twenty centuries of strenuous effort. Many things about it will set one to reflecting upon what a large member of this world England is to-day, and this will in turn move even the least imaginative to cast a glance down her long perspective and note the stress of her progress and the insignificance of her first estate. In this matter London is itself a suggestive object lesson. I suppose that London has always existed. One cannot easily imagine an England that had no London. No doubt there was a village here over a thousand years ago. It was on the river somewhere west of where the tower is now. It was built of thatched mud huts, close to a couple of limpid brooks, and on every hand for miles and miles stretched rolling plains of fresh green grass, and here and there were groups of trees. The tribes wore skins��� sometimes merely their own, sometimes those of other animals. The chief was monarch, and helped out his complexion with blue paint. His industry was the chase; his relaxation was war. Some of the Englishmen who will view the procession to-day are carrying his people���s ancient blood in their veins. It may be that that village remained about as it began, away down to the Roman occupation, a couple of thousand years ago. It was still not much of a town when Alfred burnt the cakes. Even when the Conqueror first saw it, it did not amount to much. I think it must have been short of distinguished architecture, or he HYLAND 4