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L O N D O N

AS SEEN BY

CHARLES   DANA   GIBSON

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
MDCCCXCVII


Copyright, 1897, by
Charles Scribner’s Sons

Thanks are due to Life and the London Graphic for
their kindpermission to reproduce some of the
drawings in this book.


TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
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AFTER a short journey through country divided by hedges into a green andgold checker-board; thatched roofs disappear, and chimney-pots taketheir place and flourish until you come to the Thames, where blackbarges in mid-stream wait for the muddy tide to turn, between banks ofmasts and smokestacks; then the Gothic buildings of Parliament, and “BigBen,” and Charing Cross Station; and in another moment you are inLondon, riding through the never-ending restlessness of its streets in acab that you can afford, with your hat-box safe by your side and yourtrunk up by the driver, and London with its history on all sides of you,its wooden streets and polished side-walks and bright shop windows, andat every corner small sweeps and big policemen, providing clean and safecrossing, while push-carts dodge in and out between steaming bus-horsesand hansom cabs. This is always my first impression of London.

As all Americans arrive in London with sea-legs after a week of ship’scooking, it is doubly necessary to have been there before in order toknow where to go at once for an on-shore dinner and good rooms. Butbefore you arrive at either of these you once more become a part of thecity and again feel pe

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