IN publishing a Guide to London, two difficulties have to be surmounted: two dangers to be avoided. The difficulties are to include in a small volume such information as may be easily referred to and useful when found; the dangers are those of being either too tedious or too dry, of making the book an unready reference, or a mere index. It may be hoped that this little volume has successfully taken the middle course, and that while its whole contents may easily be scanned and remembered by the visitor who wishes to discover something of London localities and their associations, it will be turned to with interest by wayfarers who would be bored and puzzled by a mere catalogue of places to which they were directed by no regular plan.
The Map and the Illustrations have been specially prepared to exhibit some of the latest important changes and great public improvements, and the descriptions of places and how to see them, are intended to serve as a pleasant and familiar introduction to the great metropolis.