The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . ts at several principal places,such as London and Edinburgh, harl 26 to be enlisted and local committeesappointed. Elaborate plans for foodlodging and transportation had to belaid, and for the Continent and Ire-land the agency of Cook accommodation had to be look-ed with the Allan Line, months in ad-vance, even months before the firstbooking had been made by ]\Ir. had to be made forspecial trains over the Canadian Pa-cific Eailway, as well as for similarservice abroad. C
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . ts at several principal places,such as London and Edinburgh, harl 26 to be enlisted and local committeesappointed. Elaborate plans for foodlodging and transportation had to belaid, and for the Continent and Ire-land the agency of Cook accommodation had to be look-ed with the Allan Line, months in ad-vance, even months before the firstbooking had been made by ]\Ir. had to be made forspecial trains over the Canadian Pa-cific Eailway, as well as for similarservice abroad. Coaches and tvamcarshad to be engaged, vessels charteredand public halls rented. Observant people in Great Britainhad seen large parties of Canadianvisitoi-s before, but the teachere, 150of us women, were a novelty. Theyhad seen manufactiuers, membens ofthe learned professions, and fightingmen. But teachers—from Manito-ba ! That was something new. Lon-don, of course, was not brakes we went down from Eustonto Kensington, and were swallowedup as one man. We realised we were. AT THE VlCE-RECiAL LuDGK. DIBLIN in the gulf of the great maelstromof humanity, and that in it we werenothing more than an unrecognisedunit. But we had our way to pur-sue in that confusing turmoil, andit had been set down on maps for that some one or two or three per-sons must have gone apart from theswarm to consider our coming. As a community, London was notaffected by our presence, although weconfess to having been visibly affectedby London. But, notwithstandingthe opinions of some who have gonefrom Ludgate Hill to HampsteadHeath, London is not the whole Brit-ish Isles, and even if she did nothold her breath at our ai-rival, buttook the precaution to remove theCrown jewels from the Tower, theanticipation of us had set other com-munities agog. Windsor and Eich-mond and Kew had heard us com-ing a long way off, and Portsmouthhad set her docks in readiness. Cant-erbury had revised her tales
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