Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Men and Women of Soho: Famous and Infamous
It seemed to the Rector of St. Anne's, and to a few of those helpers, both clerical and lay, who have had the privilege of sharing his labours in this Parish of many creeds, languages, manners, and vicissitudes, that it would be a design of possibly some slight historic value, to attempt a record of the romances and realities of the present and past of Soho.
Some phases of the Present were considered in the narrative of the latter of the Two Centuries. That work, whatever its merits or demerits, must always possess a distinction that no subsequent production, under the same auspices, can rival for it was honoured by a generous and appreciative Preface from the pen of the lamented Sir \valter Besant, one of the greatest authorities of his day on Central London, and an almost daily visitor to our Square for three or four years. An attempted Soho estimate of the gifted author, to whose encouragement we owe so much, can be read later on. It is entirely with the Past of Soho that it is the province of this second Volume to deal.
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