Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of London Life, Vol. 1 of 2 The interest which continues to be felt in everything connected with metropolitan society and manners, in conjunction with the remark able success which his previous works on similar subjects has met with, has induced the Author to present the public with two more volumes illustrative of London Life. The work, it will be observed, is formed on the same plan and written in the same style as The Great Metropolis, and Travels in Town; to which six volumes, indeed, it may. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.