Excerpt from A Looker on in London It is a trite saying that comparisons are odious, and comparisons between England and the United States seem capable of giving peculiar and marked offense; yet it is only by comparing that which is unfamiliar to the reader to those things familiar to both the writer and this public that an approximate idea may be conveyed of matters discussed or described; consequently where such com parisons occur in this volume there has been no desire either to discredit England at the expense of the United States, or the reverse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.