Life in London - Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis #224471

Just ten years before this, another popular picture of English life had appeared under the title of Doctor Syntax, also illustrated with coloured pictures but Combe's rhymed story of the Quixotic clergyman is altogether of a milder character than that brilliant picture of fun and spree-those astound ing Day and Night Scenes of the glorious heroes, Tom, Jerry, and Logic — which Mr Egan has chronicled for our in struction and amusement. How delightful the book was to the youths of England, and how eagerly all its promised feasts of pleasure were devoured by them, Thackeray has told us in his Roundabout Paper.