nal" passed away as a dream of the night. Not that
England may perish does that new blood course through the veins, and that
new creed fructify in the hearts of her sons. The progress we have made
is the surest indication of the progress it is yet our destiny to make.
Onward, then, ye labourers for humanity, heralds of a coming age--onward
then till

"We sweep into a younger day.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."

Those who would deny the people their political rights--who would teach a
Christianity unworthy of its name--who would inculcate a conventional
morality--who would degrade the national heart by perpetuating religious
and political shams--they, and not the foreigner, are our national
enemies. Against them must we wage untiring war, for they are hostile to
the progress of the nation, and by that hostility sin against the
progress of the world. England will still stand foremost in the files of
time--and of that England, London will still remain the heart and head.

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LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM OSTELL, HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY.

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_Price_ 3_s._ 6_d._, _bound in cloth_, _Second Edition_, _Revised_.

THE NIGHT-SIDE OF LONDON,

BY
JAMES EWING RITCHIE.

Contents: Seeing a Man hanged--Catherine-street--The Bal Masque--Up the
Haymarket--Ratcliffe Highway--Judge and Jury Clubs--The Cave of
Harmony--Discussion Clubs--Cider Cellars--Leicester Square--Boxing
Night--Caldwell's--Cremorne--The Costermongers' Free-and-Easy, &c.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"We would wish for this little volume an attentive perusal on the part of
all to whom inclination or duty, or both, give an interest in the moral,
the social, and the religious condition of their fellow-men; above all,
we should wish to see it in the hands of bishops, and other
ecclesiastical dignitaries--of metropolitan rectors and fashionable
preachers--of statesmen and legislators--and of that most mischievous
class of men, well-meaning philanthropists. The picture of life in
London, of its manifold pitfalls of temptation and corruption, which are
here presented to the reader's eye, is truly appalling. No one can rise
from it without a deep conviction that something must be don