Excerpt from The Dowager, or the New School for Scandal, Vol. 1 of 3A favourite complaint of foreigners against London, is the tedious length of the streets. To an eye familiar only With the picturesque irregularities of foreign cities, nothing can ex ceed the monotony of such thoroughfares as Baker Street, or Gloucester Place - traversing under varied denominations, a Whole parish, and carrying the eye along a waste of weary brick walls perforated with Windows, up to the northern mists of the Regent's Park.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.