Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870.

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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
 By Liza Picard, St. Martin's Press
 New York, hardcover $29.95.

ALWAYS A FASCINATING storyteller, Liza Picard turns her witty and observant eye on the metropolis during the mid-19th century. With public executions, workhouses, cholera epidemics and milk cows in the streets, the city feels remarkably medieval. With the building of the Underground, the Great Exhibition and the coming of the railroad, the city casts itself into the modern age. There is never a dull page.