"Sir," said DR. JOHNSON, "let us take a walk down Fleet Street." Mr. Wall TEMPLE BAR 80523 A London Magazine FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY READERS. CONDUCTED BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, AUTHOR OF “TWICE ROUND THE CLOCK,” “WILLIAM HOGARTH,” “GASLIGHT AND VOL. IV. MARCH 1862. LONDON: OFFICE OF "TEMPLE BAR," 122 FLEET STREET. WARD AND LOCK, 158 FLEET STREET, NEW YORK: WILLMER AND ROGERS. The rights of translation are reserved, PREFACE. It seems but yesterday that I was called upon to write a Preface for the Third Volume, and now a printer's boy is waiting for that necessary appendage to Volume IV. Why necessary, by the way? A host, after making two persons known to one another, generally stands by for a few moments to lead, or at all events to join in, the conversation; but as soon as he sees that conversation in full swing, he glides off to other guests. Surely the early formalities between the writers and the readers of Temple Bar have long since passed away! Surely, after sixteen months of pleasant intercourse, there is no occasion for me, as host,—as Editor, I mean,-to stand by and throw in introductory remarks in the shape of a Preface! UPTON COURT, BUCKS, February 1862. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. |