Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . 96 LIVING KXCHAX(iING BOOKS AT MUDIK S LIIIRAI^V. institutions, and carryinLj them thence ; andthe export department—did not Mr. CecilRhodes order 15,000 volumes at once fromMudies for the Kimberley Free Library?The bulk of the London orders come by postover night ;, by i those rows of waiting\ans outside will be off with their cargoes togratify the jaded literary palates of thefashions devotees. Altogether no fewerthan 4,000,000 \olumes are in circulation atMudies. We are in the moo
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . 96 LIVING KXCHAX(iING BOOKS AT MUDIK S LIIIRAI^V. institutions, and carryinLj them thence ; andthe export department—did not Mr. CecilRhodes order 15,000 volumes at once fromMudies for the Kimberley Free Library?The bulk of the London orders come by postover night ;, by i those rows of waiting\ans outside will be off with their cargoes togratify the jaded literary palates of thefashions devotees. Altogether no fewerthan 4,000,000 \olumes are in circulation atMudies. We are in the mood for contrasts : here isthe Tube station close at hand ; let us descend,and in about twenty minutes we are standingbefore the entrance of a free library inMile End Road. Throngs of Jiabitius areentering and departing, for it is the hourof noon, and many have come to snatcha morsel of mental pabulum for the day, alongwith their bread and cheese or all nationalities are they, for we are nowin a cosmopolitan district, but at this momentthe Hebrew element is strongest. See thateager group of men, o
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