THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET
... The civic banquet with which Lord Mayor's Day is always brought to a close, came off with the wonted eclat in the evening. The grand old medieval hall, so renowned in the municipal history ofthe City of London, lighted up with elegant geseliers, shone with unsurpassed splendour, and without calling in the aid of any extraordinary decorations, and trusting to it own beautiful proportions, ...