Mornings at Bow Street

Mornings at Bow Street - A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald'

This volume consists of certain of those Bow Street Reports which have appeared from time to time, during the last three years, in the columns of the Morning Herald. The very favourable notice which they then met with from the public, has induced the author to select some of the most descriptive and amusing of them, and to present them here again, with some necessary enlargements and corrections, and in a somewhat more finished state than the rapid demands of a daily paper allowed. In their present form, therefore, they assume the more permanent character which they have been thought to deserve; the convenience of the reader is consulted, and his imagination very effectively aided, by the Designs of Mr. George Cruikshank, whose rare comic pencil has been most successfully employed in illustrating them. [Pg vi]The chief quality of these little narratives is certainly "pour faire rire" in common with all other books of faceti; but in some important respects they differ from books of that class, which for the most part consist of fancied and fictitious scenes and characters; and of humour concocted in the brain of the writer: for in the work now presented, the dramatis person are actual existences, and the scenes real occurrences; affording specimens of our national humour which is perhaps to be found genuine only among the uncultivated classes of society. In copying these, the author's chief aim has been to preserve the character and spirit of his originals. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 35783
Author: Wight, J. (John)
Release Date: Apr 7, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878