Excerpt from The Street of Faces: Glimpses of Town I set out one day trying to remember what it was like to be in London for the first time. For two hours I walked, seeing many things, but whether I found what I went in search of I do not know. I set out westwards from Ludgate Circus, which once was the end of London, first looking up at St. Paul's. For to look up at St. Paul's and all the traffic climbing to it under the dark railway arch is to remember that London was once a little walled town and that it stood on a hill looking far away to other hills, northwards to the hills of Hampstead, southwards to Gipsy Hill and east wards across unending, empty marshes, where the river wound slowly towards the seas. That is the chief purpose and beauty of St. Paul's. It allows no one to forget that once London stood as a walled city on the top of a hill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.