racteristics will be found to consist in what Addison's Freeholder calls "the Curiosities of this great Town." Their bibliographical illustration, by quotations from Old Poets and Dramatists, Travellers and Diarists, presents a sort of literary chequer-work of an entertaining and anecdotic character; and these historic glimpses are brought into vivid contrast with the Social Statistics and other Great Facts of the London of to-day.

The plan of the book is in the main alphabetical. Districts and localities are, however, topographically described; the arrangement of streets being generally in a sub-alphabet. The Birth-places, Abodes, and Burial-places of Eminent Persons-so many sites of charmed ground- -are specially noted, as are existing Antiquities, Collections of Rare Art and Virtu, Public Buildings, Royal and Noble Residences, Great Institutions, Public Amusements and Exhibitions, and Industrial Establishments; so to chronicle the renown of Modern as well as Ancient London. The articles describing the Churches, Exchanges, Halls, Libraries and Museums, Palaces and Parks, Parliament-Houses, Roman Remains, and the Tower of London, are, from their importance, most copious in their details.

The utmost pains has been taken to verify dates, names, and circumstances; and it is trusted that no errors may be found in addition to those noted at the close of the volume, with the changes in the Metropolis during the progress of the printing of the work. The reader, it is hoped, will regard these inaccuracies with indulgence, when the immense number of facts sought to be recorded in this volume is considered. Lastly, it has been my aim to render the "Curiosities" useful as well as entertaining, and with that view are introduced several matters of practical information for Londoners as well as visitors.

88 SLOANE-STREET, CHELSEA,

Jan. 16, 1855.

JOHN TIMBS.

See ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, pp. 782-784.

THE FRONTISPIECE.-This Portrait has been engraved from a painting by Thomas John Gullick; exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and pronounced to be the work of an artist of great promise.

And

THE VIGNETTE.-This Charter, described at page 460, is in English as follows: "William the King friendly salutes William the Bishop, and Godfrey the Portreve, and all the Burgesses within London, both French and English. I declare, that I grant you to be all law-worthy, as you were in the days of King Edward; and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir, after his father's days; and I will not suffer any person to do you wrong. God keep you."

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