. The critic in the Occident . PLATE XLVII Main Staircase of the Grand Opera House, Paris, the Largest Theatre in the World, Covering Nearly Three Acres. This Entrance Was the Masterpiece of the Architect, Charles Gamier. >xw « E ,2 jj u V iz ™ -s c u u fc 9J w oj £ W M J . ~ ^ ^ U gj c c G JJ c o q jx .i: n •-S ~ w £ g CQ 2 u o t-1 S: g U is -a 2 Q LONDON, SEAT OFTHE FOUNDERS OF WORLD-WIDE EMPIRE London, Huge, Smoke-Begrimed and Impressive The first impression that London makes isone of immensity. To the sensitive touristit seems impossible in a short visit to seeanything of this huge city
. The critic in the Occident . PLATE XLVII Main Staircase of the Grand Opera House, Paris, the Largest Theatre in the World, Covering Nearly Three Acres. This Entrance Was the Masterpiece of the Architect, Charles Gamier. >xw « E ,2 jj u V iz ™ -s c u u fc 9J w oj £ W M J . ~ ^ ^ U gj c c G JJ c o q jx .i: n •-S ~ w £ g CQ 2 u o t-1 S: g U is -a 2 Q LONDON, SEAT OFTHE FOUNDERS OF WORLD-WIDE EMPIRE London, Huge, Smoke-Begrimed and Impressive The first impression that London makes isone of immensity. To the sensitive touristit seems impossible in a short visit to seeanything of this huge city, with its miles of streetsand its thousands of famous buildings. This im-pression is heightened by the gloom due to a cloudysky and a pall of soft coal smoke. But after thefirst depression the tourist sets out in systematicfashion to see what he can do in the short time athis disposal. Two weeks I spent in this task ofseeing all that was most interesting in London andits environs. This labor was made more difficultby ten days of continuous rain. In any other placethis rain would have discouraged me, but the spec-tacle of men and women going about London streetswithout umbrellas put me on my mettle, and aft
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