formation, preliminary, historical, and practical, which is best calculated to make a stranger feel at home in London, and to familiarise him with its manners and customs. While the descriptive part of the work is topographically arranged, so that the reader may see at a glance which of the sights of London may be visited together, the introductory portion classifies the principal sights according to their subjects, in order to present the reader with a convenient index to their character, and to facilitate his selection of those most congenial to his taste. As, however, it has not been the Editor's purpose to write an exhaustive account of so stupendous a city, but merely to describe the most important objects of general interest contained in it, he need hardly observe that the information required by specialists of any kind can only be given to a very limited extent in the present work. The most noteworthy sights are indicated by asterisks. The list of Hotels and Restaurants enumerated in the Handbook comprises the most important establishments and many of humbler pretension. Those restaurants which the Editor believes to be most worthy of commendation are denoted by asterisks. The same system, however, has not been extended to the hotels, those enumerated in the Handbook being generally unexceptionable. The hotels at the West End and at the principal railway-stations are the most expensive, while the inns in the less fashionable quarters of the Metropolis generally afford comfortable accommodation at moderate charges. The Maps and Plans, upon which the utmost care has been bestowed, will also, it is hoped, be found serviceable. Those relating to London itself (one clue-map, one large plan, four special plans of the most important quarters of the city, and a railway plan) have been specially revised for this edition, and are placed at the end of the volume in a separate cover, which may if desired be severed from the Handbook altogether. The subdivision of the Plan of the city into three sections of different colours will be found greatly to facilitate reference, as it obviates the necessity of unfolding a large sheet of paper at each consultation. The Routes to places of interest in the Environs of London, although very brief, will probably suffice for the purposes of an ordinary visit. Some of the longer excursions that appeared in earlier editions have now been transferred to Baedeker's Handbook to Great Britain. CONTENTS. 1. Money. Expenses. Season. Passports. Custom House. 2. Routes to and from London. Arrival 3. Hotels. Boarding Houses. Private Lodgings 72 75 78 Paternoster Row. Peel's Statue. General Telegraph Office. Bunhill Fields. Honourable Artillery Company Page Grocers' Hall. Armourers' Hall. St. Stephen's Church 5. The Bank of England. The Exchange. Cornhill. Leadenhall Market. St. Andrew's Undershaft Corn Exchange. St. Olave's Church. Toynbee Hall. People's 6. London Bridge. The Monument. Lower Thames Street Fishmongers' Hall. St. Magnus the Martyr's. Billingsgate. Custom House. Coal Exchange. Tower Bridge. Commercial Docks. Regent's Canal. West India Docks. East Roman Bath. King's College. St. Mary le Strand Savoy Chapel. Society of Arts. National Life Boat Institution Marlborough House. St. James's Street. Burlington House London University. St. James's Church. Geological Museum 20. Regent Street. Oxford Street. Holborn Hanover Square. Cavendish Square Trinity College. All Saints' Church Doré Gallery. St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Russell Square University College. St. Pancras' Church. Islington. High- 1. Railway Map of England, before the title-page. 2. Map of the Environs of London, between pp. 300 and 301. 4. Plan of London in three sections. 10. St. Paul's Cathedral, p. 83; 11. the Tower, p. 119; 12. Houses of Par- liament, between pp. 184 and 185; 13. Westminster Abbey, p. 194; 14. Zoological Gardens, between pp. 228 and 229; 15. British Museum, between pp. 232 and 233; 16. South Kensington Museum (two sections), pp. 276 and 285; 17. Crystal Palace, p. 306; 18. Windsor Castle, p. 336. Abbreviations. M. Engl. mile; hr. = hour; min. = minute; r. = right; 1. = left; Asterisks are used as marks of commendation. |