HYDE PARK as we know it-a well-laid-out and quite tolerably policed preserve where
Cockneys play. Society parades and enthusiasts preach-is quite a modern institution. Comparatively recently the Park was on the fringe of London, and, naturally, no safer than the roads surrounding it; whilstitwas a great resort for duelists, and the famous duel in which Lord Mohun killed the Marquis of Hamilton, which readers of Thackeray particularly will remember, was fought there. Miss Methley will tell some of the history of the Park in those wilder days.