Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century, Vol. 2: With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences In 1824, I am settled as a Publisher in a newly-built house in Pall Mall East, the next house to the College of Physicians. I had occupied for a year a much smaller place of business on the opposite side of the way. This was altogether a new neighbourhood. The "neglected open space, on the north of which stands the King´s Mews" (vol. i. p. 117), was still open and still neglected. On the west side of what is now called Trafalgar Square, houses had grown up, which were terminated towards Charing Cross by the Union Club. But there was as yet no Nelson´s column; no fountains in the centre, to be ridiculed as dumbwaiters. In the open space, there was an exhibition of the skeleton of a whale. The King´s Mews was still there - a building of higher architectural pretensions than the National Gallery; for the architect, Kent, has left his mark upon his age as the professor of an Art with higher capabilities than consist in copying ancient models. The Mews was silent and desolate till a year or two later, when it was occupied, not by the Royal Hawks, as of old, but by Mr. Cross´s Menagerie, removed from Exeter Change. 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.
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