Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Telegraphy, Commerce, Environmentalism, Aesthetics, Physical Geography

    Urging prompt action to be taken to stop 'the abominable practice of painting tradesmen's names on all the dead walls about London', points out that 'What with ugly Railway Bridges disfiguring our streets, and Electric Wires like clothes-lines carried along our house-tops, we Londoners have certainly few prospects to be proud of'.