Excerpt from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 1850: Volumes 13-14 Lu rural folk say what they will, we Londoners do contrive to make our winters very comfortable and agreeable: if the atmosphere be murky without, within doors we have bright sea-coal fires, happy faces, and no end of entertaining relaxations, which grow heartier and warmer as the word goes from mouth to mouth Christmas is coming. It would do your eyes good in going along our streets just now, notwithstanding the mire, to see the display in the shops - magazines and mourning, books and bonnets, cakes, carpets, cashmeres, and confectionary. In strife or peace, prosperity or panic, on it goes. The great and multiplex life-whirl of this busy metropolis: nothing seems to disturb it but a deadly epidemic. 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.