. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . -1 fir ivw ? $%$- w^ i-?it dtifflm-i- \ m^rt~ IM. A Walk through the City Having dealt with the laying out of the proposedCity from the individual inhabitant point of view,I will now briefly describe the plan generally. Inthis relation may I presume to ask leave of mylady-readers to accompany them for a few minutesI shopping in this City of novel design ? Myexcuse is that special arrangements have been madefor th
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . -1 fir ivw ? $%$- w^ i-?it dtifflm-i- \ m^rt~ IM. A Walk through the City Having dealt with the laying out of the proposedCity from the individual inhabitant point of view,I will now briefly describe the plan generally. Inthis relation may I presume to ask leave of mylady-readers to accompany them for a few minutesI shopping in this City of novel design ? Myexcuse is that special arrangements have been madefor their comfort in this regard. How often onemeets ladies who love shopping! but, despite this,is not Pluvius in our own country most ungallantto our fair sisters, mothers, and fiancees, and oughtnot we, mere men—albeit not so enamoured of thepastime—to bestir ourselves and do something tocounteract the ill-humour of the besprinkling deity ?It would be a great pleasure to me to take themto Mr. Howards Crystal Palace, but being but asimple terrestrial engineer, tethered to the earth,as it were, by unbreakable ties of feasibility andeconomy, I find myself unable to soar with himinto the far-away realms of impracticability where
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