Here and There in London

Popular collection of essays, first published in 1859. The book begins: "Not far from Westminster Abbey, as most of our readers know well, stands the gorgeous pile which Mr. Barry has designed, and for which, in a pecuniary sense, a patient public has been rather handsomely bled. Few are there who have looked at that pile from the Bridge--or from the numerous steamers which throng the river--or loitered round it on a summer's eve, without feeling some little reverence for the spot haunted by noble memories and heroic shades--where to this day congregate the talent, the wealth, the learning, the wisdom of the land."