INDEX

Airships, 217 American wealth, 30; athletics, 135; diseased activity, 136; begging in, 182, 183 Aristocracy, intellectual failure of, 28 Arnold, Matthew, quotation from, 6, 14, 25, 219, 265 Baby, crying, 187 Bagehot, 30, 284 “Bankruptcy of Science,” 213 Barnett, Canon, 141, 274 Bell, Lady, At the Works, 106, 107, 109 Belloc, 19, 240 Birmingham, Bishop of, 88 Blake, 244 Bonfield, Miss, 168 “Boodler” not disapproved, 153 Booth, Charles, on religion in London, 268 Bray, Reginald, “The Town Child,” 136, 139 Butler, 265 Butler, Samuel, 283 Canyon, Arizona, 286 Carlyle, quotation from, 6, 22, 47, 99, 219, 276 “Castle Haven,” 32 Châteaubriand, 222 Chesterton, G. K., 241 Child Labour, effect of, 162 Clarion and Clarionette, 143, 154 “Conquerors, the,” 56 Corruption, Civic, 153 Crooks, Mr. Will, 144, 145, 146, 147 Crowd, the, 118, 119, 293; strong man’s contempt for, 123; in America, 123 “Cup Tie” and dying workman, 134 Davies, W. H., 180, 181, 182, 183 Democracy, 136, 141 Dill, Dr., 301 Disease, victory over, 224 Dolling, 268 Electioneering, the new, 128 Ensor, Mr., 150, 179, 207, 263 Family, limitation of, 86, 87, 103; budgets, 101; variations in, 102; working class and middle class contrasted, 139; “F. sanctity” rashly used in argument, 140 Flowers, workmen’s ignorance of, 263 Flying, developments of, 217, 290 Football crowds, 131 France, Anatole (Ile des Penguins), 294-295, 300; M. Bergeret, 302 Froissart, 193 Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 Gladstone, 21 Grayson, Mr., M.P., 143 Half-Timers, 162 Hardy, Thomas, 232 Henderson, Mr., M.P., 143 Henley, W. E., quotation from, 49 Horton, Dr., on religion, 271 Housing of the Poor, 99, 100 Hueffer, F. M., Spirit of the People, 14, 35, 270 Infantile death-rate, 161 Jefferies, Richard, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253 Jowett, Mr., M.P., 143 Juvenal, 61 Kennedy, Bart, 178, 180 Kipling, quotation from, 287 Kipps, 170, 171, 286 Lamb, Charles, 131 Land, love of, 193 Life Worship, 249, 251 Living-in, 161, 165; moral effect of, 167; employers on, 166 Loane, Miss, 112, 115 London County Council, Hôtel de Ville, 23; elections, 69 Lord of Latimer Street, 116 Lowes, Dickinson, 283 Lyons, Neil, 184 Mallock, 41 Medieval craftsmen country people, English, 200 Meredith, quotation from, 6 Morris, quotation from, 6; Socialism of, 257, 258 Newton’s law of motion, 284 Noise of the machines, awful when it stops, 137 Papacy, Sidney Smith on, 265 Peckham election, 126 Plutocracy, the, 40, 41 “Populace,” 15 Press, the Sunday, 3 Prévost, M. Marcel, 56, 57, 58, 59 Rescue Home, youth of inmates, 160 Religion, middle classes and, 75; indifference to, 267; Booth on, 269; drink and, 271; Ward, 272; class feeling and, 272 Renan, 118 Reynolds, Stephen, A Poor Man’s House, 113-116 Rights of way, only in England, 201 “Robert Thorne,” 78 Roman building, 24; vice but splendour, 46 Ruskin, quotation from, 6, 111 Sailor at midnight, 187 Scott, James, R.A., 231 “Season, the,” 44 Security, conviction of, 8, 280, 282, 288 Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 237, 238, 239 Shop assistants, 164 Sidgwick, Henry, 276 Sinclair, Upton, 30, 31, 32 Small holdings, 194 Smith, Sidney, on Papacy, 265 Snowden, Mr., 142 Socialism, aristocracy under, 64; among the middle classes, 34; among the working classes, 148, 149 Southey on the city, 136 Standard of living, alteration in, 11, 21, 39 Stevenson, R. L., 245 Strike, railway, 16 Suffragettes, 84, 119, 122, 127 Super-wealth, 20, 26 “Surrey Labourer,” 196 Sweating, instances of, 160, 161, 174; character of workers, 173 Taine, 270 Tavannes, 48 Teachers, elementary, 83 Ties of family, where strongest, 139 Tolstoy, 213 Treherne, Thomas, 243, 248, 250 Tramps, 178 Tyranny in villages, 193, 205, 206 Victorian Age, 5 Village, decaying life of, 12, 65, 190, 191, 192, 193 Viviani, M., quotation from, 155 Wells, H. G., quotation from New Worlds for Old, 149; war in the air, 220, 290; Tono-Bungay, 237; Utopia, 282 Wordsworth on the City, 136 Workhouse, labourer’s dislike of, 197

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