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r, 36 Welbeck Hall, 98 Welbeck Street, 97 Weller, Mrs., 2 Wells and Campden Charities, 33 Wells Street, 104 Wells Tavern, 20 Well Walk, 17 Wentworth House, 22 Wesley, Rev. Charles, 89 West End, 36 West End Hall, 37 West End Lane, 35 Whitestone Pond, 13 Wigmore Street, 98 Wildwoods, 10 Wilkes, 29 Willoughby Road, 25 Wilson, Sir Thomas Maryon, 2, 7 Wilson, Sir Thomas Spencer, 2 Wimpole Street, 98 Winchester Road, 48 Windmill Hill, 28 'Woodlands,' 36 Woronzow, Count, 62 Wotton, Lord, 3, 59 Wychcomb, 48 Wyndham Place, 78 York House, 86 York Place, 83 Yorkshire Stingo Public House, 77 York Street, 78 Zoological Gardens, 67 THE END * * * * * BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. * * * * * "The work fascinates me more than anything I have ever done." --SIR WALTER BESANT. LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY SIR WALTER BESANT. _IN ONE VOLUME, DEMY 4to., CLOTH, GILT TOP, CONTAINING 104 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CONTEMPORARY PRINTS AND A MAP._ Price 30s. net. "To praise this book were superfluous. Sir Walter was ideally suited for the task which he set himself. He was an antiquarian, but not a Dryasdust; he had the topographical sense, but he spares us measurements; he was pleasantly discursive; if he moralized, he was never tedious; he had the novelist's eye for the romantic. Above all, he loved and reverenced London. Though only a Londoner by adoption, he bestowed upon the capital a more than filial regard. Besant is the nineteenth century Stow, and something more."--_Daily Telegraph._ A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON * * * * * SCOTTISH MEN OF LETTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By HENRY GREY GRAHAM Author of "Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century" IN ONE VOLUME DEMY 8vo., CLOTH WITH 32 FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS 18s. Some Press Opinions. "An eminently readable book ... full of charm and interest.... There is not a page of the book which does not sustain its interest, and nowhere does Mr. Graham fail to give us a lively picture of the life and character of those of whom he writes.... Mr. Graham has shown how literary biography may be made more attractive than many a creation of fiction."--_Times._ "Very good reading indeed."--_Candid F
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