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Mystic London: Or, Phases of Occult Life in the British Metropolis. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Maurice Davies - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
OE all the protean forms of misery that meet us in the bosom of that stony-hearted stepmother, London, there is none that appeals so directly to our sym pathies as the spectacle of a destitute child. In the case of the grown man or woman, sorrow and suffering are often traceable to the faults, or at best to the misfortunes of the sufferers themselves; but in the case of the child they are mostly, if not always, vicarious. The fault, or desertion, or death of the natural protectors, turns loose upon the desert of our streets those nomade hordes of Bedouins, male and female, Whose presence is being made especially pal pable just now, and whose reclamation isa perplexing, yet still a hopeful problem. In the case of the adult Arab, there is a life's work to undo, and the facing of that fact it is which makes some of our bravest workers drop their hands in despair. With these young Arabs, on the contrary, it is only the wrong B.
Unorthodox London: Or Phases of Religious Life in the Metropolis. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Maurice Davies - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
With one or two exceptions, the following papers have appeared in the columns of the Daily Telegraph, from which they are reprinted by permission of the proprietors, and with scarcely any alteration. The rule laid down was that they should be strictly descriptive articles, expressing no opinion pro or con. I have to acknowledge the ready courtesy and assistance which I have received from most of the representative men, whose names occur in the following pages. The only exceptions I have been obliged in self-defence t-o specify; Init they are so few :is simply to prove the rule. I feel that I have learnt much, and softened down a good many prejudices in the course of my two or three years religious peregrinations; and the hope of producing the same results in stay-at-home travellers induces me to collect the fugitive papers into a volume.