The Aftermath; Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life: Called upon the outer cover, for purposes of sale, Caliban's Guide to LettersBelloc, Hilaire
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The Aftermath; Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life: Called upon the outer cover, for purposes of sale, Caliban's Guide to Letters
Belloc, Hilaire
Authorship; Satire
We have no space to dwell on this interesting character. “Hogg’s
Trustees” are an ecclesiastical household word in our principal
watering-places, and the “Hogg Institute” at Brighton is a monument
of Christian endeavour. He was a shrewd bargainer, a just man, and
upon his mantel-pieces were to be discovered ornaments in alabaster
representing Joshua and Richard Cœur de Lion.
The growth of the metropolis entered largely into Mr. Hogg’s
enlightened prevision of the future, and he obtained promises from
a large number of people to build houses upon his land, which
houses should, after a term of years, become his (Hogg’s) property,
and cease to belong to those who had paid to put them up. How Mr.
Hogg managed to obtain such promises is still shrouded in mystery,
but the universal prevalence of the system to-day in modern England
would surely prove that there is something in our Imperial race
which makes this form of charity an element of our power.
Mr. Hogg’s only daughter married Sir John Moss, Lord Mayor; and Mr.
Moss, the son, was the father of the present Lord Hemelthorpe. Thus
something romantic still clings to poor Manning Green, of which
Lord Hemelthorpe was, until his recent bankruptcy, the proprietor.
There is little more to be said about Manning Green. The Ebenezer
Chapel has a history of its own, written by the Rev. Napoleon
Plaything, son of Mr. Honey Q. Plaything, of Bismark, Pa. The
success of the boys’ club has been detailed in _God’s London_, by
Mr. Zitali, of the “Mission to the Latin Races.” The book is well
worth buying, if only for this one essay, written, as it is, by a
brand saved from the burning. Mr. Zitali was for a long time in the
employ of Messrs. Mañanâ, the restaurant keepers, and no one is
better fitted to deal strenuously with the awful problems of our
great cities.
Manning Green is about to disappear, and all its wonderful
associations will become (in the words of Swinburne)
“Smoke, or the smoke of a smoke.”
But until it disappears, and until its purchase price is finally
fixed by the committee, its historical associations will still
remain dear to those who (like the present writer) are interested
in this corner of the Motherland. That men of our blood, and men
speaking our tongue--nay, that those neither of our blood, nor
speaking our tongue, but devoted to a common empire--will remember
Manning Green when the sale is effected, is the passionate and
heartfelt prayer of
JAMES BAYLEY.
ON EDITING.
ON EDITING.
I come now to that part of my subject where pure literature is of
less moment than organization and the power of arrangement; and the
last two divisions of my great task concern work which has been
written by others, and with which the journalist has to deal in the
capacity of manager rather than that of author. These are, a few
notes upon editing, and some further remarks upon Revelations, that
is, unexpected and more or less secret political announcements.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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