Mr. SYMONS' similes are essentially urban; the sea (to take an example at random) has for him "something of the colour of absinthe."

The terms suggested things distinctly urban.

One civilization after another has begun with a predominantly rural economy that has become increasingly urban as it matured.

Literature became intensely urban and partisan.

Indeed, our national banking development has been predominantly urban and commercial to the neglect of rural and agricultural interests.

This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded place, a quality that was greatly enhanced by the fact that a number of paths paved with black and white stones, and each with a curious little kerb at the side, ran hither and thither in an orderly manner.