In a country town, even in a large country town,
warning is quite practicable and desirable. But to bring the -life of London to a temporary standstill is another matter altogether. Would it be helpful in any way for Edgware to rush under cover because bombs were being dropped on Croydon, or for Richmond to immobilize itself because Barking was being attacked ? We admit that it would be an attractive series of incidents in the Great War if the capital were always warned by bells. Imagine the bell of St. Paul's starting the tocsin, to be taken up by " the great bell of Bow " and all the surrounding churches, and the sound of bells spreading and filling the air tiff twenty square miles resounded with the " tintin- nabulation of the bells." But that is rather a thing for the fancy to play with than a thing to realize.
