Subtle Brains And Lissom Fingers

SUBTLE BRAINS AND LISSOM FINGERS. BEING SOME OF THE CHISEL-MARKS OF OUR INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC r i i llY ANDEEW WYNTEB, . M. D., M. K. C. P. LOND. AUTUOIl OF CUUIOSrilKS OF CIVILIZATION, OUll SOCIAL IJKES, ETC. E3DITIO1T. LONDON OBERT HARDWICKE, 192 PICCADILLY. 18C9. TO MY HEADERS, majority of the papers in this volume have already appeared in the pages of Once a Week and the London Review. I ain half afraid that the public have had enough of them already, and I have only been tempted to republish them by the representations of my Publisher. The fact that OUE SOCIAL Bj i 8 a work somewhat similar in scope to the present volume - has already reached a sixth edition, indicates, he t ll 5m, that I have not yet exhausted the public patience. Trusting this may prove to be the case, I have ventured to trespass once more upon the good-nature of my readers. Professional work will not permit me, how ever, to do so again and the next time I take up my pen, it inust be in furtherance of the main business of my life the study of Mental Disease. A. W. PARK HOUSE, A DDT SON ROAD, KENSINGTON, August, 1863, CONTENTS, THE BURIED ROMAN CITY IN BRITAIN DINING-ROOMS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES ... ... 19 SILVERTOWN . . . ... ... ... ... ... 27 RAILWAYS AND CITY POPULATION ... ... ... 37 ADVERTISING ... ... ... ... ... ... 44 A DAY WITH THE CORONER 52 VIVISECTION 65 THE ENGLISH IN PARIS... ... .. .. ... 71 THE NEW HOTEL SYSTEM 79 THE TIMES NEWSPAPER OF 1798 ... ... ... 95 THE RESTORATION OF OUR SOIL ... ... ... 105 THE UNDER-SEA RAILROAD 126 HALF-HOURS AT THE KENSINGTON MUSEUM ... ... 135 OH, THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND 159 MUDIES CIRCULATING LIBRARY... ... ... ... 165 PHYSICAL EDUCATION ... ... ... ... ...173 FRAUDULENT TRADE MARKS ... ... ... ... 179 ADVICE BY A RETIRED PHYSICIAN ... ... ... 188 SUPERSTITION WHERE DOES IT END 192 THE CLERK OF THE WEATHER 201 THE NEW COUNTERBLAST TO TOBACCO... ... ... 214 PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD 226 AIR TRACTION ... ... ... ... ... ... 242 VILLAGE HOSPITALS 251 ILLUMINATIONS ... ... ... ... ... ... 256 RAILWAYS, THE GREAT CIVILIZERg 263 vill CONTENTS. BOAT-BUILDING BY MACHINERY page 272 ON TAKING A HOUSE 279 THE EFFECTS OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING UPON HEALTH ... 289 PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE 297 THE WORKING MEN S FLOWER-SHOW 318 DOCTORS STUFF 321 MESSAGES UNDER THE SKA 328 SMALLPOX IN LONDON 350 TOWN TELEGRAPHS 362 HOSPITAL DISTRESS 372 THE BBEAD WE EAT 37 5 EXCURSION TRAINS 385 EARLY WARNINGS 392 A GARDEN SCENE 421 WESTMINSTER CLOISTERS 423 BE TRUSTFUL 424 AUTUMN ON THE HILL SIDE 426 A WATER SKETCH 428 THE TWO PICTURES 430 MY ROOM IN THE COUNTRY 431 ASSOCIATIONS OF A SHELL 437 THE ANCIENT GARDEN 439 THE PASSING OF THE STORM 441 THE DESERTED COTTAGE 443 LIFE AFTER DEATH 444 THE BUBIED ROMAN CITY IN BRITAIN. WE had been traversing the London Hoad, wliicli leads out of Shrewsbury by its eastern suburb, skirting every now and then the silvery Severn, meandering through a park-like country, when my companion turned the horses head down a bye-road on the right, which speedily led us amid some undulating pastures. And now said he, as the carriage jerked over a ridge in the road now we are in the Eoman City, I looked around me. There were undulating fields and crops of turnips, hedge-rows and trees an English landscape, pure and simple, such as we meet with everywhere in the luxuriant western counties. But where have the Romans left their marks I asked, halfincredulously. My companion pointed with his whip to a dark object a little in advance a weather beaten wall which rose, a massive and significant ruin, in the midst of the pastoral scenery surrounding us. As we drew near, the Cyclopean mass of grey stones, streaked at intervals with bright red lines of tile-work, left no doubt upon our minds. And if you will observe narrowly, said my companion, you will see indications of the line of the walls And truly an B 2 THE BUlilED ROMAN CITY IN BEITAIN...