THE GLORY THAT WAS GRUB STREET

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by  WITH THIRTY-TWO CAMERA STUDIES BY E.O.HOPE

THE GLORY
THAT WAS
GRUB STREET

THE GLORY THAT
WAS GRUB STREET

Impressions of Contemporary Authors

BY

ST. JOHN ADCOCK

Witn Turtery-rwo Camera Srupres
BY
E, 0. HOPPE

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LTD.
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PREFACE

Tur title of this second volume of “The Gods of
Modern Grub Street” was originally given to it for
the comfort of my publishers and would have been
altered if, before going to press, I could have thought
of a better one. It is not intended to suggest that
every author once lived in Grub Strect, nor that
those who did were not glad to get out; it is intended
to suggest that the Grub Street tradition has grown
and put forth branches until it is no longer a mere
streti but a whole literary world of many-coloured
romai which seems to be as fascinating to the
artistic temperament as webs are to flies, so that
one may almost say of it, as Chaucer said of the
married state, that

“They who are in would fain get out,
And they who are out would fain get in.”

Anyhow, you find the author who formerly dwelt
in Grub Street, but has become prosperous and
changed his address, will confess that, looking back
from the affluence and tame security of the present,
he realises that when he lived in the Street, and
everything seemed possible and nothing sure, those

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