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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VII.
The Nineteenth Century. What Could Still Be Done With Its Small Remainder. | |
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What befell court dress | 129 |
Our most exemplary episcopate | 129 |
Special trusts: The great scheme of a resanitated London | 132 |
Reception of the project | 133 |
The opposition | 134 |
Mode of the work as to finance | 135 |
An episode of the project | 137 |
General plan of the work | 138 |
Some chief features | 139 |
Concentration of the public offices | 144 |
Other special trusts: the national drama | 146 |
Housekeeping economy for the masses—Mechanics' hotels | 149 |
No longer "Ireland our difficulty" | 152 |
CHAPTER VIII.
The Twentieth Century: Some of Its Prominent Features. | |
A passing Transatlantic family jar | 156 |
Club life after the nineteenth century | 158 |
Women's clubs | 162 |
A trade union crisis of the twentieth century | 165 |
Social resanitation: a disposition to take society's evils thoroughly in hand | 168 |
1. Our new policy with crime | 170 |
2. As to begging and general vagabondage | 173 |
Yet one more step of advance and reform | 176 |
An enemy still capturing our territory, even after the entire cessation of war | 177 |
A trade union strike at the end of the twentieth century | 179 |
CHAPTER IX.
The Twenty-First Century: Its Illustration by a Progress of Principles. | |
Our National Church, as it appeared and fared in this twenty-first century of our era | 182 |
The United National Trades Union, and its first centenary of the death of Yellowly | 185 |