The passage. The planter. The English custom-house. The lost purse. Macadamized roads. Improvements of London. Specimens of bad taste. National taste. The Regent's Park. Waterloo bridge. London Hotels. The bazaars. Walks in the streets. Shops. Dinner at the ---- Ambassador's. Johannisberg. Chiswick. Decline of taste in the science of gardening. Favourable climate. The menagerie. Life in the City. The universal genius. The exchange and Bank. The gold cellar. Court of justice of the Lord Mayor. Garroway's Coffee-house. Rothschild. Nero. Exeter 'Change. Wurtemberg diplomacy. Theatre in the Strand. The ingenious man. Too much for money. Hampton Court. Dangerous fumigation......14 LETTER IV. Climate. British Museum. Its guards. Strange _Mischmasch_. Journey to Newmarket. English scenery. Life there. The races. The betting-post. Visit in the country. English hospitality. The Dandy. Englishmen on the continent. National customs. Order of dinner. Hot-houses. Audley end. The Aviary. Short Grove. Sale of Land in England......23 LETTER V. Advice to travellers. Clubs. Virtue and Umbrellas. Arrangement of Maps. English wine. How an Englishman sits. Comfortable customs. Rules of behaviour. Treatment of Servants. The higher classes. Rules of play. Pious wishes for Germany. Good-breeding of a Viscount. The actor Liston. Madame Vestris. 'Manger et digerer.' Sentimental effusion. Inconvenient Newspapers. Drury-lane. Braham the everlasting Jew. Miss Paton. Vulgarity of the theatre. Coarseness of an English audience......34 LETTER VI. Barrel organs. Punch. His biography. Ruined Houses. The King in Parliament. Contrast. George the Fourth. The Opera. Figaro without Singers. English melodies. Charles Kemble. Costume of old times. Prince E----. A diplomatic 'bon mot.' Sir L---- M----. Practical Philosophy. Falstaff as he is and as he should be. The King in Hamlet. The intelligent actor from Newfoundland. Little circle in the great world. How the day passes here. Learning languages. The author of Anastasius. His antique furniture. Oberon. The chorus of rocks. Presentation to the King. Incidents at the levee. Dinner with Mr. R----. Real piety. His fashionable friends. State carriage of the King of the Birmans. Mathews at home......44 LETTER VII. The auctioneer. The Napoleonist. French theatre. A rout. Lady Charlotte B----. Politics and conversation. English Aristocracy. The foggy sun of England. Extraordinary testamentary dispositions. Modern knights of St. John. Sion House. Richmond. Adelphi. Admirable drunkard. Alexander Von Humboldt. King of Prussia. The Diorama......58 LETTER VIII. Journey of business. Gothic and Italian villa. Stanmore Priory. English country inns. Breakfast. Cashiobury Park. Tasteful magnificence. Drawings by Denon. Flower-Gardens. Ashridge. Modern Gothic. Woburn Abbey......64 LETTER IX.