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Title: Dickens' London

Author: Francis Miltoun

Release Date: November 1, 2009 [EBook #30390]

Language: English

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Dickens' London
BY FRANCIS MILTOUN

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[Illustration: CHARLES DICKENS]

Dickens'
London

By
Francis Miltoun

_Author of "Dumas' Paris," "Cathedrals of
France," "Rambles in Normandy," "Castles
and Chateaux of Old Touraine," etc._

Illustrated

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
BOSTON PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1903_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Fourth Impression, April, 1908
Fifth Impression, April, 1910

_COLONIAL PRESS_
_Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co._
_Boston, U. S. A._

_All sublunary things of death partake!_
_What alteration does a cent'ry make!_
_Kings and Comedians all are mortal found,_
_Caesar and Pinkethman are underground._
_What's not destroyed by time's devouring hand?_
_Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?_
_Pease, cabbages, and turnips once grew where_
_Now stands New Bond Street and a newer square;_
_Such piles of buildings now rise up and down,_
_London itself seems going out of town._

JAMES BRAMSTON, _The Art of Politicks_.

The attempt is