The Lobster Quadrille

Flops’s Gymnasium belonged to Shoreditch; the entrance was from Kingsland Road, where a passage led to the club, members of which were gentlemen interested in sport generally, and the racing of horses in particular. Flops’s nights occurred twice a month, and a good many patrons went into them for nothing, in spite of the announcement…

CHAPTER I.LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO. “That wonderful city of spindles and looms, And thousands of factory folk.” The life of a people or of a class is best illustrated by its domestic scenes, or by character sketches of the men and women who form a part of it. The historian is a species of mental…

CHAPTER XXVIII THE WAR — MR. LLOYD GEORGE APPROACHES US — OUR MUNITION WORK — LORD NORTHCLIFFE — I VISIT AUSTRALIA I cabled from the boat to Miss Roe : “Have to speak on Balkans. Get me all the books possible.” So on my arrival I found that Grace Roe had procured a library for…