These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London. But this fantasy centres, in fact, round a forgotten artist, Alfred Concanen, the greatest of the designers of the old music-hall song covers, as the reader may judge for himself from the reproductions in colour of his lithographs, to which are added, in appendix, two drawings by a nameless French tutor in an English family, depicting late night life in the West End. The eighteen-sixties are a favourite period with Mr. Sitwell, who intends this little work to form a triptyeh with his La Vie Parisienne and Valse des Fleurs, studies, respectively, of Paris and of St. Petersburg during that decade. With 8 colour plates