Excerpt from National Characteristics: And Flora and Fauna of London The following short sketches bear sufficient signs Ofttheir ephemeral production. This I put for ward as an explanation rather than as an apology. The National Characteristics '3 are meant, not to be exhaustive, but to bring out some salient points in ourselves and in our neighbours to which habit and conventional Judgments are apt to blind -us. It is not my fault if they sometimes appear paradoxical. The Flora and Fauna of London 1s a slight'attempt to ...
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Excerpt from National Characteristics: And Flora and Fauna of London The following short sketches bear sufficient signs Ofttheir ephemeral production. This I put for ward as an explanation rather than as an apology. The National Characteristics '3 are meant, not to be exhaustive, but to bring out some salient points in ourselves and in our neighbours to which habit and conventional Judgments are apt to blind -us. It is not my fault if they sometimes appear paradoxical. The Flora and Fauna of London 1s a slight'attempt to grasp some portion of the poetry that clings far more to city bye-ways than to country lanes. London is' the greatest of all poems and it is well to suggest how the pilgrim of the flag-stones may find food for fancy without. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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