Identifier: criticinoccident01fitc (find matches)
Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1852- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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because of fear of thethreats of these women many of the public build-ings were closed. The British Museum shut itsdoors, and the only department that remained openwas the reading-room. Hundreds of tourists wereturned away every day from this, the chief showplace in London. To secure admittance to any ofthe priceless collections of this museum an Embassyletter to the director was necessary. HamptonCourt palace was shut, and so much red tape wasnecessary to get admission that few attempted it.The London newspapers, with that quiet disregardof public convenience which enrages the American,continued to print daily lists of museums and build-ings open to the public, but a notice at the bottomsaid that owing to the suffragette activity certain ofthese places were closed. No attempt was made tospecify the places that were shut; this labor wascalmly thrown upon the reader. In the same way,when the steamer Oceana was wrecked not a singlenewspaper in London printed the list of the seven (128)
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The Chapel of Henry VII, the Chief Glory of Westminster Abbey, London. Note the Elaborate Carving of the Oak Choir Stalls, the Fan-tracery of the Ceiling, Which Though Executed in Stone, Seems Light and Delicate as Lace Work, and the Beautiful Windows St. Pauls and Westminster Abbey passengers and twelve members of the crew whowere drowned until three days after the wreck, whenthe steamship company furnished an official list.This list would have been the first thing that anAmerican reporter would have secured. London has no avenues so fine as the Bois deBoulogne and the Champs-Elysees, but the greatopen spaces of St. James and Hyde Parks andKensington Gardens, with such streets as Regentstreet, Piccadilly, Park Lane and Hyde Park Placemake very good substitutes. Here in this new WestEnd, with the magnificent monument to Queen Vic-toria, are spacious avenues and broad, green fieldsand freedom from the smoke and grime that hurtso seriously the older quarters of the city. Andhere, too, i

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