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CONTENTS
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| Chapter I. FROM A DISTANCE | ||
No mental image of London from a distance.—"He knows his London."—What he knows.—The born Londoner.—The provincial immigrant.—His preconceptions.—His aloneness.—His induction.—He becomes the Londoner.—London, an abstraction.—Its forgetfulness.—Its tolerance.—Its assimilative powers.—London, a permanent World's Fair.—Mental images of former Londoners.—London illimitable.—Trafalgar Square.—A horse down.—The Saturday-night market.—Class views.—What the Londoner sees from afar.—The foreigner's view of London.—The Londoner confronted with this view.—Its effect on him.—His ignorance of London.—London, a background.—What we remember of London.—London manifesting itself on the clouds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| Chapter II. ROADS INTO LONDON | ||
| Where the country ends.—The three Londons.—The psychological.—The Administrative County.—Natural London.—The ring of blackened tree trunks.—Elms.—The new carriages.—Entering on a motor car.—Its effects on the mind.—Distances to be thought of in new terms.—Entering on an electric tram.—The possibility of looking round.—A manifestation of the modern spirit.—The electric tram at night.—Its romantic appearance.— | ||
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