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PICTURESQUE LONDON.



INSCRIBED

WITH MUCH REGARD

TO

THE RIGHT HON. DAVID PLUNKET, M.P.,

FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS

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Picturesque London

BY

Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A.

ILLUSTRATED BY

W. HATHERELL,    A. W. HENLEY, W. C. KEENE,	HUME NISBET, HERBERT RAILTON, G. SEYMOUR,
W. F. YOUNG, ETC.

With a Frontispiece in Photogravure of

“THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.”

(From a Drawing by Hume Nisbet.)

London:
WARD   &   DOWNEY,
1890.

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PREFACE.

In the following pages I have attempted to describe the numerousartistic treasures and beauties of London. These attractions are soabundant and varied, that I have not been able to do more than selectspecimens, as it were, of each class; but enough has been given toinspire the reader with an eagerness to set out, and make thesediscoveries for himself. The aim throughout has been to show that theMetropolis is as well furnished with “the picturesque” as any foreigncity, and that there is much that is romantic and interesting, which,without a sympathetic guide, might escape notice. There are variousmodes of “seeing sights.” One, the most common, is the regular officialmethod “the Guide Book;” when the stranger goes round, and stares, andtakes care that he sees each object set down in his Book. No fruit orprofit comes from this process, which leaves a feeling of tediousness.How welcome, on the other hand, is some living guide, the friend thatknows the subject, that can point out the special merits and beautieswith sympathy, describe in a few words why this or that is attractive,or admired. What was before a mere blank mass of details, now becomesvivified, and has meaning; something of this kind is,

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