Faces and Places by Sir Henry W. Lucy (1842 - 1924)

Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written. The first article, "Fred" Burnaby , includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada and Easter on Les Avants relate Lucy's experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales ( A Night on a Mountain , Mosquitoes and Monaco , and Oysters and Arcachon ) provide an insight into the Victorian Englishman's attitude to Europe. Three of the pieces, With Peggotty and Ham , A Cinque Port and Christmas Eve at Watts's , concern the county of Kent, where Lucy had a country house. Christmas Eve at Watts's contains an interesting exposé of Dickens' shor