Chapter 12 THEATRICAL AND FOREIGN LONDON

-"All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players...."-Shakespeare.

"O gleaming lamps of London, that gem the City's crown,

What fortunes lie within you, O lights of London Town!"-

G. R. Sims, Ballads of Babylon.

As I was travelling, one day in winter, by the familiar and homely 'bus whose "hue is green and gold"; n