Days and Nights in London Or, Studies in Black and Gray

Days and Nights in London; Or, Studies in Black and Gray

London has vastly altered since the Author, some quarter of a century ago, described some of the scenes which occurred nightly in its midst of which respectable people were ignorant, which corrupted its young men and young women, and which rendered it a scandal and a horror to civilisation itself. The publication of his work, The Night Side of Londonof which nearly eight thousand copies were solddid something, by calling the attention of Members of Parliament and philanthropists to the subject, to improve the scenes and to abate the scandal. As a further contribution to the same subject, the present volume is published. Every Englishman must take an interest in Londona city which it has taken p. vinearly two thousand years to build; whose sons, to enrich which, have sailed on every sea and fought or traded on every land; and which apparently, as the original home and centre of English-speaking people, must grow with the growth and strengthen with the strength of the world. Wrentham House, Hendon, February, 1880. London, for a village, as old Cobbett used to call it, is a pretty large one; and, viewed from the lowest stand-pointthat of the dull gospel according to Cockermay well be described as truly wonderful. It eats a great deal of beef, and drinks a great deal of beer. You are staggered as you explore its warehouses. I stood in a granary the other day in which there were some eighty thousand sacks of wheat; and in the Bank of England I held in my hand, for a p. 2minuteall too briefa million of pounds. It is difficult to realise what London is, and what it contains. Figures but little assist the reader. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36683
Author: Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Release Date: Jul 10, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English