TAINMENT NIGHT (_Round the Halls_) 27

A CHINESE NIGHT (_Limehouse_) 57

A DOMESTIC NIGHT (_Clapham Common_) 73

A LONELY NIGHT (_Kingsland Road_) 83

A MUSICAL NIGHT (_The Opera, the Promenades_) 95

A JEWISH NIGHT (_Whitechapel_) 109

A HAPPY NIGHT (_Surbiton and Battersea_) 119

A WORKER'S NIGHT (_The Isle of Dogs_) 135

A CHARITABLE NIGHT (_East, West, North, South_) 157

A FRENCH NIGHT (_Old Compton Street_) 175

AN ITALIAN NIGHT (_Clerkenwell_) 185

A BASHER'S NIGHT (_Hoxton_) 197

A DOWN-STREAM NIGHT (_Blackwall_) 207

AN ART NIGHT (_Chelsea_) 215

A RUSSIAN NIGHT (_Stepney_) 225

A SCANDINAVIAN NIGHT (_Shadwell_) 237

A SUNDAY NIGHT (_Anywhere_) 249

AT RANDOM 259

NOCTURNAL

_EVENING_

_From the Circus to The Square
There's an avenue of light;
Golden lamps are everywhere
From the Circus to The Square;
And the rose-winged hours there
Pass like lovely birds in flight.
From The Circus to The Square
There's an avenue of light._

_London yields herself to men
With the dying of the day.
Let the twilight come, and then
London yields herself to men.
Lords of wealth or slaves of pen,
We, her lovers, all will say:
London yields herself to men
With the dying of the day._

NIGHTS IN LONDON

NOCTURNAL

For the few who have an eye for the beauty of townscapes, London by
night is the loveliest thing in the world. Only in the London night may
the connoisseur find so many vistas of sudden beauty, because London was
never made: she has "growed." Paris affords no townscapes: everything
there is too perfectly arranged; its artificiality is at once apparent.
In London alone he finds those fantastic groupings, those monstrous
masses of light and shade and substance.

Take London from whatever point you will and she will satisfy. For the
rustic the fields of corn, the craggy mountain, the blossomy lane, or
the rush of water through the greenwood. But for your good Cockney the
shoals of gloom, the dusky tracery of chimney-stack and gaswork, t