Excerpt from X V. RexThis sudden giant stride was due to the idea, shyly enough inaugurated in the three years immediately following 1918 but boldly swelling with each succeeding year that because a man must work in the grey and dangerous jungle of London it does not follow that he must eat his evening meal there and sleep there and spend there his Saturday afternoons and Sabbaths.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.