BIBLIOGRAPHY. A library of hooks has been written about London, and the works mentioned here were published in the metropolis. Some of the earlier books are extremely valuable for his toric reasons. Such are Fitzstephen's work, writ ten in the reign of Henry II_ hut first printed in Stow's Surrey (1598 ) ;Arnold's Chronicle of the Customs of London (1502) : Stow's Surrey (1598). continued by various writers, and finally by J. Strype, the last edition of whose work (1755) is the standard history of London up to That date. E. Hatton's New of London. (1708) contains an alphabetical list of the streets. The fourth edition of Pennant's London. a very popular book, was printed in 1814. Allen's History and Antiquities of London, TVestminstrr, and Soutl»rark (1S27-20) is a very valuable work. containing much informa lion not found elsewhere. London, edited by Charles Knight (1841-44). and later revised by Walford, is not exhaustive, though parts of it are especially well treated. The Book of Brit ish Topography, by J. P. Anderson (1880), con tains a bibliography of London, not exhaustive, but fuller than any other. Among the more
prominent recent books is Loftie's London City, Its History, Ntreets, Traffic, Buildings, and People (1891); Peter Cunningham's invaluable Hand book of London (1850) was brought up to date in Wheatley's London, Past and Present (3 vols., 1891) ; llare's Walks in London (2 vols., 1878) is replete with anecdote, historical association, and charming description; Herbert Fry's London in 1899 and Besant's London (1902) are two of the latest considerable works. Baedeker's vol ume devoted to London contains very excel lent and helpful maps, an enormous amount of accurate information, and is kept up to date by frequent revisions. The condition and economic aspects ot the laboring classes is exhaustively treated in Booth's Life and Labor of the People in. London (4 vols.. 1892). Various annual Gov ernment reports give valuable and detailed infor mation as to the sociological, educational, govern mental, and other conditions of the city.