Excerpt from Heroines and Others For the Londoner, a walk across his own city from any one point to any other is a cheap and easy method of adventure. Late in the afternoon of a Saturday in October which I had spent in the vain endeavour to obtain a sight of some rare birds reported as visitors to Hampstead Heath, I decided to return in a straight line from that too populous Paradise to the Temple. Gospel Oak and Kentish Town were merely romantic names to me, and of Camden Town itself, famous in art and song, I possessed only a dim and gloomy idea which I owed to the Works of Mr Walter Sickert. 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.