Henry W. Lucy
Published: 2016-09-09
Total Pages: 400
Get eBook
Excerpt from Peeps at Parliament: Taken From Behind the Speaker's Chair U fugaces It is just twenty years, marked by the opening Session, since I first had the Opportunity of viewing the House of Commons from a coign of vantage behind the Speaker's Chair. It is more than twenty years Since I looked on the place with opportunity for closely studying it. But, as I am reminded by an inscription in an old rare copy of Dod, it was in February 1873 that I was installed in the Press Gallery in charge of the Parlia mentary business of a great daily paper. I first saw the House in circumstances that might well have led me to the Clock Tower. It was in the spring of 1869. I was passing through London, on my way to Paris, where I had proposed to myself to live for a year, master the language, and proceed thence to other capitals of Europe, learn their tongues, and return to storm the journalistic citadel in London, armed with polyglot accomplishments. Even then I had a strong drawing towards the House of Commons, but desired to see it, not as the ordinary stranger beheld it from the gallery facing the Chair, but from the Press Gallery itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.