ABOUT LONDON.
by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of
“The Night Side of London,” “Here and there in London,”
“The London Pulpit,” &c.
Contents:—Newspaper People—Spiritualism—About Coal—Highgate—Tom Tidler’s Ground—Westminster Abbey—London Charities—Pedestrianism—Over London Bridge—The House of Commons and the Early Closing Movement—Town Morals—The same subject continued—London Matrimonial—Breach-of-Promise Cases—The London Volunteers—Criminal London—Concerning Cabs—Free Drinking Fountains—Conclusion.
“Mr. Ritchie ought to be a popular author, and largely read by a numerous and highly respectable class.”—Athenæum.
“They are all written with such a knowledge of each subject as might be expected from a perceptive and accurate observer, who has gained his experience from himself, while the descriptive writing is that of a practised hand.”—Illustrated London News.
“We can give to this work our heartiest praise. ‘About London’ is written by one whose object is as much to instruct as to amuse, and who succeeds without any apparent effort in doing both. We say without any apparent effort, because Mr. Ritchie’s sketches are too bold to be stiff, his style too fluent and natural to be laboured. Notwithstanding this, ‘About London’ displays an amount of industrious research very rarely met with, and a knowledge of men and manners which only experience—and active experience, moreover—can supply.”—Literary Gazette.
“The subjects for the most part are familiar to us, and the easy and unaffected style in which they are treated is always sure to gratify without wearying the reader.”—Morning Advertiser.
“Mr. Ritchie has already given us various works devoted to metropolitan subjects, such as ‘The Night Side of Loudon,’ ‘The London Pulpit,’ ‘Here and There in London.’ His volume ‘About London’ will, no doubt, be as widely circulated as its predecessors. In it he communicates a vast mass of information in a pleasant, gossiping style.—Illustrated News of the World.
“Mr. Ritchie is well and favourably known as one of those writers who, whilst possessed of a keen and observant eye, remarks all the social inconsistencies of which human society in the great modern Babylon is composed, and spares neither those who may be said to hold the language of the first murderer—‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ nor others, who grovel in the sensuality, which speedily deforms man into little less than the beast of the earth. In this, the last of the several books in which he has related the doings of London life, high and low, he does not enter so fully into the mysteries of the singular career of the Arabs of our streets, but touches matters
on a somewhat higher level with the same force and intelligence, which he has hitherto manifested, combined with a more genial and pleasant refinement, which will commend its information to those who may have been disposed to be somewhat hypercritical as to the advisability of too closely ‘holding the mirror up to nature,’ and showing vice its own deformity and horror.—Bella Weekly Messenger.
“The new book by Mr. Ritchie, entitled ‘About London,’ fully sustains the reputation of the author of ‘The Night Side of London.’ It is, both in matter and manner, a most readable volume. In a series of twenty chapters the more conspicuous and characteristic places and persons about London are admirably sketched. The author indulges in all his modes. He is observant, penetrative, didactic, satirical, and reflective. Health, cheerfulness, and hope, however, are the pervading tones of this work. Whether the subject be the ‘Newspaper People,’ ‘Spiritualism,’ ‘London Gents.’ or ‘Criminal London,’ he has the happy disposition of educing good and ennobling lessons and influence from each and all.—Press.
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