The Ideal Londoner’s Holiday: Narrow winding lanes with hedges all wild and overgrown are not convenient for motorists; and so they must go, for this is an age of progress. I always admit the progress—but I have my own opinion as to the ultimate destination of the progressive. … I suppose we must console ourselves as best we can with the red raw of the new County Lunatic Asylum, and with the thought that lunacy is greatly on the increase.
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