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THE LONDON OF THE PAST.
HOW THE ELIZABETHANS LIVED.
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BUT CROWDED,
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NOT SPACIOUS DAYS," When Antipholas of Syracuse arrives at Ephesus; Mr. Frank Harris, on whom far he has written two Ane
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peace.
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21th Nov.
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2015 Oct. 23rd Oct
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Cesarca via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
the Matador in which I could never see much-two really fine, lasting books. Shakespeare the Man and The Life of Oscar Wilde, and on whom therefore he peace-Mr. Frank Harris thinks that the words then put by Shakespeare in the mouth of Antiphotus express his own feelings on arriving, a country youth in London, A guess which gains plausibility
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The background, too, of the Elizabethan scene against which the historie figures more to our gaping wonderinent, must not be forgotten. 1 town it was swarm- squalor. The confusion of Dickens's Landon, dark, rat-riddled, miserable, can have been nothing to Shakespeare's. Glasgow now, is by all accounta
a place very like hell, I have not seen it pect "Alsatia” in Elizabethan Landon was even worse-certainly meen brutal. But what strikes the skunining reader of Elizabethan books is that though swells were swollen to more than royal sins, somehow the atmosphere was on the whole more democratic. It was only very largo social and monetary corks indeed that could keep anyone adoat upon the surface of society with any security.
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There were very few-it is an awful thought to ne-modest and secure per-
only one step below the comfortable mide. view the manners of the town. perusele folk, the small sane people who now the traders, gaze upon the buildings "
set the tune of civilisation. One won- till dinner time, and then adding that he ders what often happened to them, and is stiff and weary with travel. But widows in the days of Elizabeth. What to elderly maiden ladies and respectable Antipholus had just landed from yay happened to the niild people in whom nge, a mode of travelling which does not the instinct to retire is, almost an raake one stiff. Shakespeare was remem-approximation to a passion as life goes bering the feeling in his own legs after that happened to the delicate to maimed, the exhausted, is disquieting to the long tramp from Stratford living think. There were few possible invest. over again in imagination as he wrotements and most of these were distinctly abit of his own life: as authors will do not gilt-edged. Still fewer pensions, and property was most unsteadily protected. when some character is placed as they No Isle of Wight or Cheltenham for have been themselves. I think Mr. Frank veterans who had fought by land or sea. Harris is right, and that Shakespears These gallant fellows degenerated into amling, too, at the romantic suspicions hanging about the houses of great lords of his country-bumpkin self when Anti and taverns, into braggart old toss pots, pholus says:-
ready enough with a bafing" gesture, hand on hilt, but with no nërve for a row, who were only just up to bullying
They say the town is full of cozenagh As nimble jugglers that decisive the
#ye,
Dark working sorcerers that change the
mind. Soul-Killing witches that deform. the
body,
Disguised chenters, prating mounte
banks.
And many such like liberties of sin." I greatly fear my money is not safe. If London did not come up to his coup
try
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expectations in the matter of the Black Art, in other respects it surely did. And that reminds me how abominably mis- leading is that phrase," the spacious of Queen Elizabeth; "crowded " daya would be more to the point. Its litera tur is that of a.bustling. bustling age.
screaming landlady-and at night re- tiring into Heaven-knows-what fairs In the days of Elizabeth privacy was a luxury no one wanted to buy. People washed in public. kissed in public, talked business,quarrelled in public. London must have been ruore like an excitable, Southern town; its inhabitants exuberant in speech and gesture, a flamboyant un self-conscious FCHAFFALE HAWK " in the New Statenama.
NEW TYPE OF MOTOR SHIP.
The His Bred, which has been built at Kiel for the Ozean" Line, of Flens burg. t inaugurate a new passenger service from Hamburg and Southampton direct to Vera Cruz, which is the Brat AN OVERCROWDED TOWN.
port of call, represents a somewhat new John Stow (you can read bit now in type of ship for motor propulsion.
There is
accommodation for about 60 pas- The Everyman Library) who surveyed!
is Elizabethan Loudon shook his head. How sengers, and the deadweight capacity could so many people a hundred and length is, 410 feet and the bean 52 feet. 5,400 tons, including bunkers The twenty thousand, be good and happy en crushed into one city? In 1550 a Royal Only one class of passenger is carried, Proclamation complains that great and large proportion of the cabins are of the single berth type. "The machinery multitudes of people were brought to is of a new design developed by inbabit in amall rooms, whereof a great since the war. There are two part are seen to be very poor; yea, such six-cylinder motors, each
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been launched for the same service. ro pull down erections in "add corners. in gardens and over stables "-and to forbid further building. Naturally id was not the slightest use; it only made. the crowd cling thicker together. And how quiet folk complained of the noise, the unceasing shindy of London! Wag goners cracking their whips, hawkers yelling, hammers beating here, tubs heing booped there, pots clinking, ragging ap
Thes prentices clamouring for custom! the abominable new craze for getting about quickly and the consequent thuu- dering clatter of springless vehicles over ill-paved streets! It was all nerve- shattering, disgusting. The old police res gulations were clear and emphatic: the fore-horse of every 'carriage.must be led by hand. Yet the rich drove about at a smart trot, with their footmen acamper- ing behind them in the mud, bumping into others, upsetting children, scatter- ing people who were quietly washing at street pump. What was at the root of it all was a crazy get-rich-quick vul garity and blaring vanity which had sud- denly seized the world. Our nobility in- deed! Set of gaudy greedy up-starts with hardly a grandfather among five of them. Everyboy elbowing and pushing. up, ap, up: everybody trying to out- swagger someone else.
HOW THEY DRESSED. Stow was a retired' tailor, a puritau, a quiet home-keeping man; possibly of a glum temperament. The price people paid for their clothes perhaps shocked him even more now he was no longer in the trade. Everywhere is even the triupph of that smooth and glittering devil, satin." The courtiers go about embossed with gold and jewels fairer
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in show than the tombs at Westminster.", He exclaims "Lord have mercy upon us? when be hears that one young gallant has paid £100 for a pair of breeches. fashionable Judy in her farthingale seat- ed next her fashionable lover in trunk hose, each leg a yard in circumference, can now only just touch bands. And it is not the retired tailor only who is shocked; the Queen, whose own example and tastes were largely responsible for the prevalence of fantastic ostentation, shares his alarms. She decrees that only persons with an income of over £200 a yeur may wear velvet embroidery or pricking with gold, silver, or silk either on their persons, or on their mules, and that no one under the rank of baron may baye more than three linings to his breechen" (Rather difficult to discover if this order is being observed) UI course such sumptuary rules only mada snobs more competitive. The push to wards extravagance was irresistible. It was the most showy scrambling age. Eng- land has known.
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