Stories of London

First published in 1914. Chapters cover: Some Very Old Stories, Westminster Abbey, The Charter House, Two Famous Charities, The Story and The History of Dick Whittington, When Elizabeth Was Queen, and The Story of ST. Pauls" The book begins: "The first story of London should tell who built it, and when, and why. But London is old, very old; it began before its builders had even thought of making books, and so its earliest history is written in the ground on which it stands, in its hills and valleys, its rivers and river-beds; and this is a kind of history which, if only we know how to read it, always tells the truth. "