Flashes of London

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Excerpt from Flashes of London: And Other Reflections Men raise monuments to the things they love. A schoolboy carves his name upon the form. Somewhere between these two impulses lies the motive of this volume. In the writing of these pieces has gone much that I would like to have back again, but has come much more that I should have been without, had they never been written. The balance of this Experience Account is to the good. As to the reading of them: I have read them for the last time. If they whose turn it now is can hear in them some note of London they would otherwise have missed, can see in the pictures of the streets some vision which had escaped them up to now, can feel some reverberation of her mighty pulse which they had not realized before - well, then the various suggestions that have influenced me to gather them together will not have been bad. As in most collections of this sort, each piece is to me a landmark along that path, the stones of which were editorial thanks, the blossoms of which were printed words , the fruits of which were the same as those harvested by Cabinet Ministers and head waiters, though not necessarily coinciding in degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.