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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER VII.
The Nineteenth Century. What Could Still Be Done With Its Small Remainder. | |
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| What befell court dress | 129 |
| Our most exemplary episcopate | 129 |
| Special trusts: The great scheme of a resanitated London | 132 |
| Reception of the project | 133 |
| The opposition | 134 |
| Mode of the work as to finance | 135 |
| An episode of the project | 137 |
| General plan of the work | 138 |
| Some chief features | 139 |
| Concentration of the public offices | 144 |
| Other special trusts: the national drama | 146 |
| Housekeeping economy for the masses—Mechanics' hotels | 149 |
| No longer "Ireland our difficulty" | 152 |
| CHAPTER VIII.
The Twentieth Century: Some of Its Prominent Features. | |
| A passing Transatlantic family jar | 156 |
| Club life after the nineteenth century | 158 |
| Women's clubs | 162 |
| A trade union crisis of the twentieth century | 165 |
| Social resanitation: a disposition to take society's evils thoroughly in hand | 168 |
| 1. Our new policy with crime | 170 |
| 2. As to begging and general vagabondage | 173 |
| Yet one more step of advance and reform | 176 |
| An enemy still capturing our territory, even after the entire cessation of war | 177 |
| A trade union strike at the end of the twentieth century | 179 |
| CHAPTER IX.
The Twenty-First Century: Its Illustration by a Progress of Principles. | |
| Our National Church, as it appeared and fared in this twenty-first century of our era | 182 |
| The United National Trades Union, and its first centenary of the death of Yellowly | 185 |
