is seen to have exercised considerable zeal in creating substitutes
for that home which, as a Teuton, he ought to have loved above all
else.  This, at any rate, was emphatically the case with the
Londoner, as the following pages will testify.  When he had perfected
his taverns and inns, perfected them, that is, according to the
light of the olden time, he set to work evolving a new species of
public resort in the coffee-house.  That type of establishment
appears to have been responsible for the development of the club,
another substitute for the home.  And then came the age of the
pleasure-garden.  Both the latter survive, the one in a form of a
more rigid exclusiveness than the eighteenth century Londoner would
have deemed possible; the other in so changed a guise that
frequenters of the prototype would scarcely recognize the
relationship.  But the coffee-house and the inn and tavern of old
London exist but as a picturesque memory which these pages attempt
to revive. 

Naturally much delving among records of the past has gone to the
making of this book.  To enumerate all the sources of information
which have been laid under contribution would be a tedious task and