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in saying, without pledging ourselves to the accuracy of Mr.

Green- wood's observation or memory. For our own parts where we can test

his accounts, we find them accurate as well as graphic. No dweller in the neighbourhood of Highgate, for instance, would say that the sketch entitled "A Public-house of Mourning" is exaggerated. "At a Knock- ing-out" is another description which will be verified by those who have attempted to buy, or worse still, to sell, at a London auction. The volume is thoroughly readable, and can scarcely fail, we should think, to do some of the good which the author expects from it.