A Book of Essays (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Book of Essays<br><br>I can present my readers with no facts about the increase of population in London, about its wealth, about its imports and exports. Some local knowledge of antiquarian, literary, and historical account belongs to me, but to disclose it would be a scrappy performance of what has been done admirably by my betters.<br><br>I propose, as a very constant Londoner, to write about London generally, as it strikes my fancy and sympathy. I do not know that I have had very many predecessors in the occupation. A Londoner takes London as a matter of course. Its habits and its average tone are familiar to him; he lives with people who practise the one and affect the other; it does not occur to him that they need exposition. But London, absolutely as a whole, is a subject for an epigram or a library.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.