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 . HAMMERSMITH, FULHAM, AND PUTNEY. By G. E. Mitton and J. C. Geikie ....

BY G. E. MITTON AND OTHERS 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

Mayfair is at the present time the most fashionable part of London, so much so that the name has come to be a synonym for wealth or pride of birth. Yet it was not always so, as he who runs may read, for the derivation is simple enough, and differs from most cases in that the obvious meaning is the right one. In James II.'s reign a permission was given for a fair to be held on the north side of Piccadilly, to begin on the first day of May, and to last for fifteen days. This fair, we are told, was

The origin of the word Paddington is very obscure. Mr. Edwards in his "Names of Places" gives "Pad, padi, A.S. equivalent to Paeda, King of Mercia; hence Paddington, the town of Paeda's descendants." Paddington is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The boundaries of the borough of Paddington are not quite coterminous with those of the parish. It is true that the alteration is not great. On the east Edgware Road and Maida Vale still mark the limits with a line as straight as that drawn by a ruler. O