James Ewing Ritchie (1820-1898), who also wrote as Christopher Crayon was a British author. His works include: The Night Side of London (1858), About London (1860) and Days and Nights in London; or, Studies in Black and Gray (1880). "IT is said of a stranger who came to London for the first time, and took up his quarters in one of the most crowded city streets, that he remained standing at the door the whole of the first day of his London existence, because he waited until the crowd had gone. "