Excerpt from Old Times The daily Newspapers of those times were totally different to those to which we are accustomed. The absence of Railways, Steamships, and Electric Tele graphs, combined with a very high rate of Postage, pre vented the publication of all News, either from foreign or provincial sources, except it were of real importance and, as the daily sheets must be filled, it followed, as a matter of course, that a substitute was found in detailing the social life of the Metropolis - and the daily Newspapers, which now give us the latest news from all parts of the globe - had to be filled with social paragraphs, anecdotal, satirical, or otherwise. They were as open to correction, or contradiction, then, as now; so that we may put trust in them and when these paragraphs are collected, and somewhat classified, they afford a view of the daily life of the period, such as is utterly unattainable else where. This collection must, of necessity, be valuable to the student of those times, besides being of great interest to the general reader. 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.