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