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MR . WILMOT HARRISON'S / Iftemorable ClTTTn * TTTTTrTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ¦ i 111 TTTTTTTTTTTTTm mi iiiui ¥ TTTT " i 111 ^ nfo gn * Ibouses ILLUSTRATED . PRICE 1 / 6 * . From ' THE TIMES ; Jan . 29 , 1890 . * A more handy and perhaps even more attractive volume is " Memorable London Houses , with Illustrated Anecdotes , " by Wilmot Harrison . The 100 illustrations by G . N . Martin are less pretentious than those in " Clubland , " but they are extremely good of their kind . The work is arranged in half-a-dozen routes , and on the map of reference are such circular lines as guide us in the London Directory to fares and distances within the postal radius . Of course the book is very far from being exhaustive . Every English celebrity has sojourned somewhere in London at one time or another . If all the houses with associations were placarded , certain quarters , such as Soho or the more modern St . James ' s , would be decorated like the gala coat of a Continental Field-Marshal . But Mr . Harrison has done all , and more than all , we could reasonably expect ; and it is equally surprising and gratifying to know how many memorable houses have escaped demolition . There are brief biographical notes on the illustrious tenants , and very often clever portraits in pen and ink , borrowed from the best or the most picturesque authorities . Thus , taking two very different samples at random , the sketch of Dryden is from " Spence ' s Anecdotes , " and thai of Anthony Trollope from Mr . Frith's «• Reminiscences" of yesterday . ' From ' THE SPECTATOR : * Mr . Harrison supplies us with a book which gives infinitely the best account of the memorable London houses that has yet appeared . The writer of the work in question has the true literary sensibility ; and in the notes which he adds to each of the houses described he recalls just . the associations which ought to be suggested . He is , besides , a capital raconteur , and every page has some pleasant and apposite story connected with the famous dead . Indeed , Mr . Harrison , as he leads us through the London streets , is the merriest of guides . . . Thoroughly well edited . . . Destined to afford a great deal of amusement to all walking Londoners . ' London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE <& RIVINGTON , Limited , St . Dunstan's House , Fetter Lane , Fleet Street , E . C , 4 ... '• . « ' *¦ ¦ -. 1 v " ¦ » t 1 , to ! ' , 1 ' I 1 'A
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1890, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021890/page/48/
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