ANCIENT

By the same Author,

AND MODERN LONDON;

OR, A HANDBOOK FOR LONDON; PAST AND PRESENT. Alphabetically arranged so as to facilitate reference. Second Edition, most carefully and thoroughly revised, with an Index of Names. Post 8vo, 168.

"A dictionary, in which any building, street, institution, or other particular of London topography, may be looked out and found in its alphabetical place." Quarterly Review. "We can conceive no companion more welcome to an enlightened foreigner visiting the metropolis than Mr. Cunningham, with his laborious research, his scrupulous exactness, his alphabetical arrangement, and his authorities."

The Times.

"A work useful in purpose, and national in character." Morning Chronicle. "A carefully compiled, amusing, and instructive manual of popular antiquities and street history." M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY; ITS ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND

ASSOCIATIONS. New Edition. 16mo, 18.

ADVERTISEMENT.

I HAVE endeavoured in this work to place myself in the position of a well-informed guide seeking to give a stranger visiting London for the first time, all requisite information respecting lodgings, eating-houses, places of amusement, &c.; of one whose aim it is to point out those features of the metropolis best worth seeing, with the way in which they may be seen to the best advantage.

"By the help of MURRAY," it has been observed by a writer in the Times,* "the veriest cockney, the greenest school-boy, and the meekest country clergyman may leave his counter, his school, or his parsonage, and make his way through all Europe comfortably, cheaply, and expeditiously. We are not aware," the same writer adds, " of any London guides that would give the foreigner such an entire command of this metropolis, as Galignani's, for example, gives to the Englishman in Paris. What we want, however, is something more compendious." I will not undertake to say that this

The Times, Dec. 2, 1850.