The Englishman at Home: His Responsibilities and Privileges (Classic Reprint)

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The book is the outcome of observations and ex periences as a newspaper man in England, extending over seventeen or eighteen years, of a journalistic career which began in boyhood with the reporting of the proceedings of Town Councils, Boards of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor, School Boards, Coroners', Police, and County Courts, Quarter Ses sions, and Assizes, and has included ten or twelve years of newspaper work in London, with regular attendance at Westminster, a varied experience of the actual working of the State Departments, and an insight into politics and political life in the English Metropolis which falls to the lot of a Lon don editor of a provincial daily journal. It is writ ten with some knowledge of National, State, and Municipal politics in the United States, gained during a term of service on the literary staff of the St. Louis globe-democrat, and through'considerable travel as a special correspondent of English and American journals in a large number of States of the Union.

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