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*ASSISI. By LINA DUFF GORDON. _5th Edition._
+BRUGES. By ERNEST GILLIAT-SMITH. _3rd Edition._
+CAIRO. By STANLEY LANE-POOLE. _2nd Edition._
+CHARTRES. By CECIL HEADLAM. _2nd Edition._
*CONSTANTINOPLE. By WM. H. HUTTON. _3rd Edition._
+FLORENCE. By EDMUND G. GARDNER. _8th Edition._
+LONDON. By HENRY B. WHEATLEY. _2nd Edition._
*NUREMBERG. By CECIL HEADLAM, M.A. _5th Edition._
*PERUGIA. By M. SYMONDS and LINA DUFF GORDON. _6th Edition._
+ROUEN. By THEODORE A. COOK. _3rd Edition._
+SIENA. By EDMUND G. GARDNER. _2nd Edition._
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(FROM WM. SMITH'S MS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM).]
_The Story of London= by Henry B. Wheatley_
_Illustrated by W. H. Godfrey K. Kimball, H. Railton etc._
_First Edition, May 1904._ _Second Editon, August 1905._ _Third Edition, October 1909._
(_late Legal Adviser to the Local Government Board_)
I dedicate this little book as a slight expression of the debt of gratitude I owe to him, and of the great loss I, in common with all his friends, have suffered by his death.
I especially wish to associate his honoured name with this book because he took the greatest interest in its evolution, and I have had the benefit of his acumen and wide knowledge in the consideration of most of the subjects discussed in its pages.
'History! What is history but the science which teaches us to see the throbbing life of the present in the throbbing life of the past.'--JESSOPP'S _Coming of the Friars_, p. 178.
There can be no doubt that our interest in the dim past is increased the more we are able to read into the dry documents before us the human character of the actors. As long as these actors are only names to us we seem to be walking in a world of shadows, but when we can realise them as beings like ourselves with the same feelings and aspirations, although governed by other conditions of life, all is changed, and we take the keenest interest in attempting to understand circumstances so different from those under which we live.