The following pages are not presented as any contrioobution to either science or literature. They aim at nothing more pretentious than describing, in language geasily read and understood, the more important of those reforms in the administration of the metropolis, which are often known as The London Programme. The present exposition of that programme is in no sense authoritative, and the writer has no other warrant for his task than a life-long acquaintance with oi London, and a very real and deep affection for his native city. cj The greatest need of the metropolis is, it may bee suggested, the growth among its citizens of a greater sense of common life. That Municipal Patriotism which once marked the free cities of I taly, and which is already to be found in our own provincial towns, can, perhaps, best be developed in London by a steady gexpansion of the sphere of civic as compared with rindividual
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