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

& LONDON: HISTORIC AND SOCIAL.
a London: Historic and Social BY; Claude
a ssen hGehe n F5s2sS PhI5s
preface the author says: 1t is difficult to
write without a certain emotion Of the
worlds W. greatest metropolis. London has a
history SO varied, past so majestic, a
present 50 important and future SO
problematlc that even in a partial and In
complete co p appreciation Of SO vast a, subject
resources Of description and rhetoric could
Wellt be called into requsition. To trace
Even IN i "a mo most superficial manner the
remote antiquity in which its origin is
buried, from those days to which are at
ri69tape e the legends Of Brutus its hypo
down through the ages which have since
expired, the Roman Occupation, the Saxon
ana Danish Monarchies, the Norman Period
the Inc, rule 1he Ct the Plantagenets,. the Tudors
or Brunswick; to give even the barest out
line OF It's growth, civic and architectural,
an an + outline sufficient to create picture
cesslYe age, and atsthe same time convey
an u nde Of the political the so
| ceSSlVe, is In itself no unambitious task
me superficial observer, the traveller
passing through England's capital and ac-
cordlng. to 1t but the attention granted by
ne knew his London and had seen it's
sights IN at most a fortnight or but some
what longer period; but he who knows Lon
more especially Of it's history, it's traditions
and Its local lore alone can know, it
would o.I! tel you that a year Of conscientious
as. it should be known: Penetrate, how
ever benea tn; the surface, discover the by
ways of London life, its hidden churches,
its relics of the monastic age it's bits Of
| medieval architecture its obscure squares
and parkings, it's street marts, and those
numerous hives Of its lower Industrial life,
and arrive at a true understanding of it's
institutions, civic, social, commercial, and
Of the many interests of it's tremendous and
teeming populations, differing so widely in
its IS several quarters, through racial and
splendor and an all-absorbing interest quite
nr to the ef passing 2Sa traEesf
world is lost IN antiquity. Centuries after
toWn OF Il Luz a. (the modern name is cor
An English history is bound up in it's
history Of the metropolis. ! The wars of
Sni1q s. Ranes Romans and Normans are
brought new life. He granted a charter,
strengthened the walls and built the White
| Tower. William Rufus. decided upon the
the crypts st St. Stephen s remain. Pro Prot d,y
! no other place Of interest, not excepting
| brilliant pageants or momentous occasions
than this splendid apartment, which was
the banquet hall of the palace and in which
Here on the scaffoldng erected for the pur.
| pose, Anna Boleyn sat witness to her
! 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 t. ~. s.
The writer traces the growth of West
| minister Abbey, st. PauPs and other
churches and palaces. The history is car
| ried down to the present time. The vol
umes are sumptuously bound and profuse-
| ly Illustrated. - .t-li: ~. N.-@-s E-1G -:t