Chapter I: Front Matter

The Storm
of London

THE STORM OF LONDON

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“‘Clothes,’ said Carlyle, ‘gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens of us.’ This truth has been developed in an audacious manner by the author, who is not lacking in sarcasm and humour, and in a lucky moment of inspiration he has produced a book which will find hosts of readers for its originality, will be a topic of the moment for its daring, and will demand more permanent recognition for the truths which it unveils.”—_St James’s Gazette._

“A book which is as amusing as it is audacious in its pictures of Society compelled to adopt the primitive attire of an Edenic age.”—_Truth._

“London is turned into a huge Eden peopled with Adams and Eves in all the pristine simplicity of the altogether nude.”—_Aberdeen Journal._

“Any amount of wit and literary skill ... the audacity of such a literary enterprise.”—_Scotsman._

“A perfect saturnalia of nudity.”—_Glasgow Herald._

“Everybody should read this uncommon and curiously persuasive fiction, that by the aid of realism, humour, and of wistful fancy, conveys an impression not likely to be quickly lost.”—_Dundee Advertiser._

“Clever work.”—_Times._ (First Notice.)

“Daringly original.”—_Outlook._ (First Notice.)

“The author is at once bold and restrained in his picture of a London entirely deprived of clothes.”—_T. P.’s Weekly._

“A daring idea ... a book which should have many readers.”—_Daily Mirror._

“The shocks and complications that ensue should appeal to all lovers of fiction.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ (First Notice.)

“The author has written an extraordinary book, daring and remarkable.”—_Daily Express._

“A daring theme treated with admirable discretion. The story is singularly well told.”—_Birmingham Gazette._

“Everybody is in a state of nudity, and the developments are interesting as all England is in the same interesting predicament. The book is distinctly peculiar, and the writer may be congratulated on his development of Carlyle’s speculations upon the state of Society rendered clothesless.”—_Bristol Times & Mirror._

“Truly original and amusing.”—_Bookseller._

“Very clever; smartly conceived and ably written.”—_Western Daily Mercury._

“A clever variation of the theme of Sartor Resartus.”—_Bystander._

“We have seldom perused a more fascinating book; a most daring idea, most capably worked out. It is a book that no one should miss.”—_Varsity._

“The idea is certainly original, the book is selling wildly, critics praise it ... one of the books of _the_ season.”—_Hearth & Home._

JOHN LONG, PUBLISHER, LONDON

The
Storm of London
=a Social Rhapsody=

By

F. Dickberry

“Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes
have made men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens of
us.”—CARLYLE’S _Sartor Resartus_.

_SEVENTH EDITION_

London

John Long

13 & 14 Norris Street, Haymarket

[_All Rights Reserved_]

_First published in 1904_

Dedicated

TO

M. E. H.

THE STORM OF LONDON