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ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. (Page 459.)
GRAND STAIRCASE, BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
PALACE AND HOVEL:
OR,
PHASES OF LONDON LIFE.
BEING
PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN IN LONDON, BY DAY AND NIGHT; WITH
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ROYAL AND NOBLE PERSONAGES, THEIR RESIDENCES
AND RELAXATIONS; TOGETHER WITH VIVID ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE MANNERS, SOCIAL CUSTOMS, AND MODES OF
LIVING OF THE RICH AND THE RECKLESS, THE
DESTITUTE AND THE DEPRAVED, IN THE
METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
WITH
VALUABLE STATISTICAL INFORMATION,
COLLECTED FROM THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCES.
BY
DANIEL JOSEPH KIRWAN.
Beautifully Illustrated with Two Hundred Engravings, and a finelyexecuted Map of London.
PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.
Hartford, Conn.:
BELKNAP & BLISS.
W. E. BLISS, TOLEDO, OHIO.—NETTLETON & CO., CINCINNATI,
OHIO.—DUFFIELD ASHMEAD, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
UNION PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO, ILL.
A. L. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
1870
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
BELKNAP & BLISS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
WILLIAM H. LOCKWOOD,
Electrotyper
Hartford, Conn.
TO
Samuel L.M. Barlow, Esq.,
OF
NEW YORK CITY,
A
True Gentleman in Every Quality and Duty of Life,
THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED,
AS A
SLIGHT TESTIMONY
TO THE
Unvarying Friendship borne by him for the author
PREFACE.
In offering this volume to the Public, the result of a year'sexperience and labor, I must indeed feel gratified, and more thanrewarded, if any of those who may peruse its pages shall find in thema tithe of the pleasure which I enjoyed in journeying in and about thenooks, crannies, and curious places, of what may be justly called thegreatest and most populous City of the Modern World.
Believing that a Metropolis of Three and a Half Millions of peopleshould be observed and described, if observed and described