<em>Faces and Places</em> 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 <em>To Those About to Become Journalists</em> rings as true today as when it was written.<br /><br />The first article, <em>"Fred" Burnaby</em>, includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while <em>Night and Day on the Cars in Canada</em> and <em>Easter on Les Avants</em> relate Lucy's experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales (<em>A Night on a Mountain</em>, <em>Mosquitoes and Monaco</em>, and <em>Oysters and Arcachon</em>) provide an insight into the Victorian Englishman's attitude to Europe.<br /><br />Three of the pieces, <em>With Peggotty and Ham</em>, <em>A Cinque Port</em> and <em>Christmas Eve at Watts's</em>, concern the county of Kent, where Lucy had a country house. <em>Christmas Eve at Watts's</em> contains an interesting exposé of Dickens' shor
