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PREFACEwhen I was writing The Government and Misgovemment of London,1 I was struck by the remarkable dearth of books dealing with the government of great cities in foreign countries or within the Commonwealth. 'There is a tendency,' I wrote in the preface to that book, 'for the government of the...

Frontiers in ScienceSome time ago I was asked to address a large group of teachers representing all subjects. Eager, as a scientist, to impress on them the value of studying science, I chose to talk about it as "The Endless Adventure." The speech (reprinted in this volume) was not intended to be a...

PREFACEMY original interest in the subject matter of this book (and the same is true of most of the others that I have written) sprang more from practical experience than from academic study. On the one hand it was the unanswerable questions which forced themselves upon my attention as a...

GOLDMAN 'S chapter one A NIGHT AT GOLDMAN'S Naturally every Stockholmer has been to Goldman's, but so that country-folk may not imagine that the great department store lies somewhere east of the sun and west of the moon, I'il teli you that the building with the pink and grey granite fa^ade and...