London is the greatest city in the world. How easy it is to say that or read it! How very, very hard it is to get the least idea of what it means! We may talk of millions of people, of thousands of streets, of hundreds of thousands of houses, but words will give us little grasp of what London means. And if we go to see for ourselves, we may travel up and down its highways and byways until we are dizzy with the rush of its hurrying crowds, its streams of close-packed vehicles, its rows upon rows of houses, shops, banks, churches, museums, halls, theaters, and begin to think that at last we have seen London. But alas for our fancy! We find that all the time we have only been in one small corner of it, and the great city spreads far and wide around the district we have learned to know, just as a sea spreads around an islet on its broad surface.
CONTENTS
I. IN LONDON TOWN--I.
II. IN LONDON TOWN--II.
III. IN LONDON TOWN--III.
IV. OLD FATHER THAMES--I.
V. OLD FATHER THAMES--II.
VI. IN A CATHEDRAL CITY
VII. THROUGH WESSEX--I.
VIII. THROUGH WESSEX--II.
IX. THROUGH WESSEX--III.
X. ROUND THE TORS
XI. THE LAND OF SAINTS
XII. IN SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY
XIII. AN OLD ENGLISH HOUSE
XIV. BY FEN AND BROAD
XV. BY DALE AND FELL
XVI. THE PLAYGROUND OF ENGLAND--I.
XVII. THE PLAYGROUND OF ENGLAND--II.
XVIII. HEROES OF THE STORM
