The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy who can be
dull in Fleet Street. — Often when I have felt dull at home, have
I rushed into the crowded Strand and fed my humor till the tears
have wetted my cheek for unutterable sympathies with the multi-
tudinous, moving picture. ... I love the very smoke of London,
because it has been the medicine most familiar to my vision.
Thus an act of extracting morality fromi the commonest incidents
of a town life is attained by the same well-natured alchemy by which
the foresters of Arden " find tongues in trees."

Charles Lamb.
Whilst the Shelleys were roaming through Italy,
the Lambs and Coleridge had both changed their
homes.
The Lambs moved from the Temple building to No.
20 Little Russell Street, over a brazier's shop — a strange
situation for two nervous people to select.
They were temptingly near two theaters, Drury
Lane Theater being just in front of their house, and
Covent Garden Theater directly in the rear. And the
Lambs were both fond of attending the theater, although
this could scarcely have been their reason for selecting
a home in a neighborhood so full of noise and discom-
fort. " I can s-s-step around the corner and f-f-find
the first vegetables and greens in market," said Lamb.
312 THE DAYS OF LAMB AND COLERIDGE.
