Excerpt from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Vol. 2: MDCXX MDCCCXX<br><br>We see city life at this time in Ho garth's crowded perspectives; but it Was not always gay and rollicking and cheerful in cv ery London street and at all times, any more than all English country life was that of Sir Roger de Cov etley. Hogarth has revealed to us also the dark corners and yawning holes, the want and cruelty, the heartlessness, misery, and vice. Life in London was not always cheery, as in Horace Walpole's let ters - a brilliant jigging, smirking Vanity Fair, with fiddles singing, where all is sparkle and glitter.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.