Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 263: July to December 1887 The first impressions of London fully confirmed Candide in the Mute correctness of his anticipations. The streets, bright in the warm sunlight, the brisk traflic, the rush of life, all seemed to betoken a joy-intoxicated population. There was no doubt about the Jubilee, for the whole English language seemed to be reduced to that one word. In the shop windows, everything, from diamond tiam to scrubbing brushes, was ticketed Jubilee. Candide was in ecstasies. What more delightful proof, he said, of the happiness of this sublime people? Or do you still doubt in the possibility of human happiness with all this ocular demonstration of its reality? 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.