Barren Honour: A Novel

This book is Barren Honour: A Novel. A very central place is Newmanham both by local and commercial position a big black busy town waxing bigger and blacker and busier day by day. For more than a century that Queen of Trade has worn her iron crown right worthily her pulse beats now sonorously with the clang of a myriad of steam-hammers her veins swell almost to bursting with the ceaseless currents of molten metals and her breath goes up to heaven heavy and vaporous with the blasts of many furnaces.