CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
[I.]Some Celebrated Cockneys[1]
[II.]Shakespeare in London[10]
[III.]Where Pope stayed at Battersea[26]
[IV.]Hogarth[36]
[V.]Goldsmith, Reynolds, and some of their Circle[52]
[VI.]Homes and Haunts of Johnson and Boswell[89]
[VII.]Blake and Flaxman[118]
[VIII.]A Hampstead Group[140]
[IX.]Round about Soho again[167]
[X.]A Philosopher, Two Poets, and a Novelist[187]
[XI.]Charles Lamb[207]
[XII.]St. John’s Wood and Wimbledon[233]
[XIII.]Chelsea Memories[255]
[XIV.]Thackeray[296]
[XV.]Dickens[314]
[XVI.]Conclusion[328]