The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04

4 LONDON; HISTORIC AND SOCIAL. *5
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preface the author says: It is difficult to
write without "a certain emotion Of the
worlds greatest metropolis. London has i
present so important and future so
problematic that even in a partial and in
complete co. Pc appreciation of SO vast q, subject
resources of description and rhetoric could
we'll pc called into requisition. To trace
even eyer IN "a m. most superficial manner, the
remote antiquity in which its origin is
buried, from those days to which are at
tributable the legends of Brutus, it's hypo-
thetical founder, of Belin and King Lud,
expired, the Roman Occupation, the saxon
and Danish Monarchies, the Norman Period
the rule OF the Plantagenets,. the Tudors
Of Brunswick; to give even the barest out out
line OF It's growth, civic and architectural
an outline sufficient to create a picture
cessiEe, age, and af.the same time convey
cial and the intellectual life. Of the sue
cesSlye, is In itself no unambitious task
The superficial observer, the traveller
passing through England's capital and ac-
e &C. Ia to It but the attention granted by
he knew his London and had seen its
sights IN at most Il fortnight or but some
what longer period; but he who knows Lon
don-as the student of it's monuments, and
more especially of it's history, it's traditions
and Its local lore alone can know it
would tell you that year Of conscientious
work was scarce sufficient to know London
as it should be known. Penetrate, how
ever, beneath, the surface, discover the by
ways of London life, its hidden churches,
it's relics, of the nlonastic age it's bits Of
and parkings, its street marts and those
numerous hives of it's lower industrial life,
and arrive at a. true, understanding of it's
Of the many interests of it's tremendous and
teeming populations, differing so widely in
ITS It's several quarters, through racial and
before you with a majesty, a dignity, q
splendor and an all-absorbing interest quite
unknown 1k'9 to the passing traveller.
vor TIA 9f as IS Of the 1ges city in the
its founding its name was tokaer Lud or
town OF Lud 1.-THE modern name is cor
ruption of this). ''5. - -. =
All English history is bound up in it's
history Of the metropolis. The wars of
SaXons, Danes, Romans and Normans are
built in it's walls. William the Conqueror
strengthened the walls and built the White
| Tower. William Rufus. decided. upon the
erection Of the palace, Of Westminster; OF
the eryps st. Stephen REMAINS Pot Proba dn
no other place Of interest, not excepting
the tower, has been the scene of more
| brilliant pageants or momentous occasions
| than this splendid apartment, which was
the banquet hall of the palace and in which
the law courts were formerly opened.
| Here on the scaffolding erected for the pur.
own trial; here Sir William Wallace, the
| Scotch patriot. and Sir Thomas Moore
| stood before the bar, and here the great
! protector, Somerset, listened to his sen.
| tence of doom, and in after times sat the
high corut of Justice which enacted the
farcical trial Of Charles l..
The writer traces the growth of West.
| minister Abbey, st. PauIs and other
churches and palaces. The history is car.
| ried down to the present time. The vol
unes are sumptuously bound and profuse