Temperance, morality, smoking, marriage laws, vaccination, funeral customs and cremation, early closing, domestic service, cooking, dress, hygiene, our boys and girls and what to do with them, in fact, everything in life, seems to have been converted into a “Question,” and provides a text upon which more or less eloquent sermons are preached. Everyone seems to work hard, and has no time for anything. Everyone, too, is restless and expectant, eager for excitement and change, while miracles of discovery and invention are wrought so frequently as to be almost unnoticed. All nations are being chained together by iron roads or lines of swift steamers, and everybody travels. Locomotion is the order of the day, a sign of the times, and electricity is the great factor that has brought it about. Just as in the building of some vast cathedral unsightly scaffolding conceals the graceful proportions of the uprising building, so in what is going on around us may appear much confusion and absence of purpose. But out of it is being evolved a state of readiness for the coming era, when wars shall cease and vexed problems be finally solved. Meantime the world’s feverish workers might well despair, were it not that they “...see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil co-operant to an end.” INDEX Accidents on electric railways, 251-256 -- to motor-cars, 264-267 -- tramway, 258-263 Adaptability of shallow underground system to London, 198, 199 Advance of motoring, 202 Agricultural motor vehicles, 218, 219 Agriculture, Decay of, 277, 278 Aldershot trials of motor vehicles, 215-217 Aliens and overcrowding, 279, 280 American capital and London’s railways, 61, 160, 161 Balfour’s, Mr., views on motor-cars and public highways, 228, 229 Ballybunion and Listowel Railway, 36, 37 Barnet motor-car accident, 266 Birmingham electric tramways, 170, 171 Black country, Facts and statistics respecting the, 177-179 Board of Trade Committee upon vibration in Tubes, 87 -- -- Report of upon shallow underground system, 199 -- -- -- -- vibration in Tubes, 87-89 Boer war and motor-cars, 214, 215 Boston shallow underground railway, 190-194 Brighton Beach Electric Railway, 13, 14 British Electric Traction Co.’s tramways, 180-182 Brunel’s shield and Thames Tunnel, 76, 77 Buda-Pesth shallow underground railway, 190 Cabs, new and old, 212, 213 Cars, Curious uses of motor, 221-223 -- Description of various motor, 206 -- -- electric tram, 137, 138 Central London Electric Railway, The, 63-73 -- -- -- -- Description of, 66-68 -- -- -- -- Effect on omnibus traffic of, 70 -- -- -- -- History of, 63-65 -- -- -- -- Its annual sale of lost articles, 72, 73 -- -- -- -- Its City subways, 65, 66 -- -- -- -- Means of exit from cars of, 72 -- -- -- -- Ventilation of, 70-72 Centres of Great Britain, Manufacturing, 174-177 Chatham electric tramway accident, 259, 260 Chester motor-car accident, 266