Dickens's Dictionary Of London

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...to. avoid passing through a drinking bar. In-some cases a separate room is set apart for ladies, but there is practically no reason why the public room should be avoided'. At some of the great "omnium gatherum " shops, and at institutions such as South Kensington and the Rl. Academy, luncheon can be obtained, while several confectioners at the West End particularly study the comfort of ladies, who are also specially catered for at Verrey's Restaurant in Regent-st. Lady Artists, Society of, 48, Great Marlborough-st, W.--Pictures are received for exhibition about the gth and iothof February, and the exhibition opens on the first or second Monday in March. Works of nonmembers in oil or water-colour are received subject to the approval of the committee, and space _ permitting. Works of professional artists are received free. Nonprofessional exhibitors pay a fee of half-a-guinea for the placing of one or two pictures: for more than two, one guinea. Copies in watercolour, only of high merit, will be received and. exhibited, space permitting. Exhibitors are charged 10 per cent, on the price of works sold. The costume life classes in connection with the society begin during the first week of the exhibition, and are held on Tu. and Fri. from 1 till 5. Instructor, W. H/iFiske, Esq.; Visitor, George D. Leslie, Esq., R.A. For all further particulars, application should be made to the Hon. Sec., Miss M. Atkinson, at the Gallery. Admission to the exhibition, is.; catalogues, 6d. each. Nearest Ry, Sin.t Portland-rd; Omnibus Rtes., Oxford-st. Regent-'st; Cab Ranks, Oxford Market and ConduitSt, Lambeth Bridge is perhaps, on the whole, the ugliest ever built. It was also--when it was built, at ail events--supposed to be the cheapest. It is a suspension-bridge of th...