Things I have seen and people I have known
By: by George Augustus Sala ...
Publisher: Cassell and Company, limited
Published: 1894
Place of publication: London; Paris [etc.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Journalists -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc; United States -- Description and travel; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The real Thackeray. Charles Dickens as I knew him. Charles Dickens in Paris. Paris fifty years ago. Parisian streets in days of yore. A most famous funeral. On the rail. Under the stars and stripes.; title: v. 2. In a Mexican sombrero. Usurers of the past. "Fi. Fa." and "Ca. Sa." The fast life of the past. Pantomimes past and present. Operas remembered. Songs that come back to me. Pictures that haunt me. Taverns that have vanished. Dinners departed and discussed. Cooks of my acquaintance. Costumes of my infancy. Handwriting of my friends.