Excerpt from The Other Side of the Lantern: An Account of a Commonplace Tour Round the World Tilbury on the Thames is quite a fitting place from which to take ship for a journey to the Radiant East, especially when, the time is November and when the river is shut in by a freezing fog. The Spot is benumbing and Without sentiment, but it has some interest by contrast. It is the grey curtain hanging before the brilliant scenes of the play. 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.