August 21.
The Empire of London, " with its 117 square miles and 44 million inhabitants is a strange contrast to the 2,300,000 square miles of Bue tain's Colonial Empire in whose vast spaces 60 million souls are scattered. But in spite of all the colour and variety of the Colonies there is in English minds a special thought, for the roy" stones "of London, 'This, thought will always make one' pause for an instant on the bridge where more than a hundred years ago the oct, Wordsworth also "halted, murmuring:
Dull would he be of soul who could ATtignt to touching in tts majesty.
Statisticians divide up London into two distinct areas, There is frst the Administrative County of London, ruled" f¥om County Hall, Outside there is the remainder of London, whose population is approximately the same as that of the county. Thus the total population of Greater London is more than 8% millions "London is more populous than Berlin, Paris and Rome combined. The people of London outnumber the Inhabitants of Sweden and Norway. DUE together; also the population of 'Abyssinia or 'Belgium. When Nelson was dying at Trafalgar, his fellows countrymen numbered fewer than {he people of London today. And the spacious days of Queen' Elizabeth the population of England was smaller by half than that of twen-teth-century London.
"These are the masses of London, 'These are the 4,000,000 men and 4,500,000. women' who inhabit the mightiest metropolis the world has ever known.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.