Cloth, price 1s. 6d. net; leather, price 2s. net each. THE STRAND DISTRICT. By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton . WESTMINSTER. HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE. By G. E. Mitton . Edited by Sir Walter Besant . CHELSEA. KENSINGTON. HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY. By Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton ....

BY G. E. MITTON EDITED BY SIR WALTER BESANT LONDON ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1903...

A survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities, that should preserve her history, her historical and literary associations, her mighty buildings, past and present, a book that should comprise all that Londoners love, all that they ought to know of their heritage from the past—this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he died. As he himself said of it: "This work fascinates me more than anything else I've ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted be

When people speak of Kensington they generally mean a very small area lying north and south of the High Street; to this some might add South Kensington, the district bordering on the Cromwell and Brompton Roads, and possibly a few would remember to mention West Kensington as a far-away place, where there is an entrance to the Earl's Court Exhibition. But Kensington as a borough is both more and less than the above. It does not include all West Kensington, nor even the whole of Kensington Gardens