Saunterings in and about London

A collection of vivid, wry essays that wander through London neighbourhoods and public life, offering close observation of streets, squares, the river and popular amusements. The author sketches crowds, fashions, shop displays, theatrical scenes and the police, and examines the city's bustling industries of spectacle and advertising with ironic humour. Chapters move between river views and suburban promenades to legal inns and theatres, punctuated by short anecdotes and character sketches that illuminate social habits, commercial showmanship, and urban contrasts between public ritual and private routine.