LONDON'S DOOM.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3739, 18 December 1880, Page 1

LONDON'S DOOM.

A Mr VV. Desle Hay has written a book with the name of "Doom of the Great City." It has been puplished by Newmn and Co. of London, and purpor a to hare been written at^Tapuaeharerua, Taupo, , JS.Z., on February 2nd 1942. An old colonist residing among the orange groves on the banks of Lako Taupo relates to hii grandchildren and with"-graphic minuteness the Jignrible stovy vof the suffocation, of every*li*inf being in the City of London on ,the night of February 2nd, 1882* by a stiiing London fog.- The consternation of the suburbs, on the following morning, the speotaoles in the streets of the city when the fog lifted, tho. sights in the parks, theatres and public bars, are described with thrilling minuteness. The work bears much the same character ai , the " Battle of Dorking " being, like it, highly sensational in its narrative, and at j the same time conveying an important : lesson. The lessons of the respective ■ j works are, however, dissimilar —that of ! the " Battle of Dorking" showing the results of military unpreparedneis. while.. I that of the "Doom.of the City" is io>" tended asa warning to those who indulge | in the gross and, as the author supposes, . growing immoralities of the great city.— I Waikato Mail.