Jonas Hanway

In Westminster abbey, in the west aisle, between the monuments of those two great ruen Warren Hastings anrl Richard Cobden, is one of Jonas Hanway, whose chief claim to faine is tha he was the first rnan in Eng] and whó oarried an umbrella. It is not probable, though, that. this is the reason why he was buried in the abbey, since he was also farnons iu his day as a traveler and a philanthropist. ' Ho journeyed uinoh in the east, and wrote a most interesting account of his lifethere. Afterward he carne home, and, making a tour of England, wrote so dull a book about it that it drew f rom the celebrated Dr. Johnson the characteristic remark that "Jonas acquired some reputation by traveling abroad and lost it all by