Mayfair, according to some who profess to know, is beginning to lose its fashionable pre-eminence. Well it has had' a long life as the Mecca of "the best people," observes the "Daily Chronicle." The name is taken from the fair which was first held there under James_II.+ in the first fortnight of May, '"'not'for trade and merchandise, but for music, showes, drinking, gaming, raffing' lotteries, stage plays, and rolls.' Tt was attended by ''all the nobility of the town," which may
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