Excerpt from A Book About London: Its Memorable Places, Its Men and Women, and Its Historical and Literary Associations T is hoped that in the voluminous literature which London has gathered around it this Book about London, in its two parts, may find a place of its own. It is not intended as a guide-book, nor as a topographical indicator. It is narrative rather than descriptive. As a rule, people do not care much for minute descriptions of places or buildings; what they chiefly want to know is, the special interest that attaches to them - historical, romantic, literary, or artistic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.