THE

WORLD OF LONDON.

VOL. I.

THE

WORLD OF LONDON.

A NEW SERIES.

BY

JOHN FISHER MURRAY.

"Learning is most advanced in capital cities, where chance conspires with
industry to promote it; where we catch 'the manners living as they rise,'
study life, not logic, and have the world for correspondents."-DR. GOLDSMITH.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1845.

LONDON:

Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

THE WORLD OF LONDON.

CHAPTER I.

PHYSIOGNOMY OF LONDON.

Then would a splendid city rise to view,

With carts, and cars, and coaches roaring all :
Wide poured abroad, behold the giddy crew :
See how they dash along from wall to wall,
At every door, hark! how they thundering call!

CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.

ALLOW us to introduce you, Gentle Reader, Great Metropolis, Great Metropolis, Gentle Reader! Now, gentlemen, you are acquainted, and may proceed to do a bill for one another, if you think proper !

It is customary when we are introduced to a stranger to take a glance, not impertinently, but as it were by accident, at his physiognomy. A traveller about to inform you of the manner of living of the different people he meets with,

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