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CONTENTS
| Entering London on a bicycle.—Its tiresomeness.—The just-outside-London 'bus.—Entering London on foot.—In a gipsy caravan.—The most intolerant method of entry.—The defect of rapid transit.—The Londoner abroad no longer sought after.—London the product of roads.—The Thames.—Roads historically considered.—The watermen.—The pampered jades of Belgia.—Climbing skywards versus spreading out.—Strata of past Londons.—Workmen's dwellings.—Georgian houses.—"Parades."—The speculative builder.—The pathos of his products.—A fairy-like effect near the Obelisk.—Entering London on a market wagon.—The dawn sounds of London.—Entering London by barge.—No longer a common method.—Entering London by railway.—The goods depôt.—The approach of the millennium.—The London landscape from a train window.—Its pathos.—Uncompleted histories.—A builder of the Pyramid of Cheops. | Page 33 | |
| Chapter III. WORK IN LONDON | ||
The oldest road.—Gravesend.—Its significance for sailors.—Thames barges.—The two kinds of work.—Their union.—Tilbury dock.—The chief officer.—The invisible rope.—The two ends of London.—The secret of London.—The millionaire.—The ferryman.—The Italians.—The streets paved with gold.—The modern appeal.—Former adventurers.—The immense crowd.—Buonaparte.—Other Napoleons—The spirit of modern work.—X.—P.—Hobbies.—Methods of individual work.—Routine work.—The necessity for asserting an individuality.—Women workers.—The matchbox maker.—Her ideals.—The very poor.—The caput mortuum.—The obverse and reverse of the medal.—The periodical press—The cabinet-maker.—The personal element.—Municipal Trading.—The bank clerk.—Stanley.—The cement works.—New processes.—The battle field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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