e, ay, and
that soon, if the metropolis of the British Empire is not to become a
modern Sodom and Gomorrah."--_John Bull_.

"There is a matter-of-fact reality about the sketches, but they are
chiefly remarkable for the moral tone of their reflections. Generally
speaking, painters of these subjects rather throw a purple light over the
actual scenes, and say nothing of the consequences to which they lead.
Mr. Ritchie is ever stripping off the mask of the mock gaiety before him,
and pointing the end to which it must finally come."--_Spectator_.

"We have kept Mr. Ritchie's book lying on our table, hoping that we might
find an opportunity for making it the basis of an article on the fearful
evils which it discloses. We must be satisfied, however, for the
present, with recommending all our readers who are anxious to promote the
social and moral regeneration of our great cities to read it carefully;
and to remember, while they read, that London does not stand alone, but
that all our larger towns are cursed with abominations, such as those
which Mr. Ritchie has so vigourously and effectually
described."--_Eclectic Review_.

"The author of 'The Night-Side of London' has graphically described the
scenes of debauchery which are to be found at night. It is a fearful and
shocking _expose_."--_Illustrated Times_.

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_Price_ 2_s._, _Cheap Edition_, _Revised and Enlarged_,

THE LONDON PULPIT,

BY
JAMES EWING RITCHIE.

Contents: The Religious Denominations of London--Sketches of the Rev. J.
M. Bellew--Dale--Liddell--Maurice--Melville--Villiers--Baldwin
Brown--Binney--Dr. Campbell--Lynch--Morris--Martin--Brock--Howard
Hinton--Sheridan Knowles--Baptist Noel--Spurgeon--Dr. Cumming--Dr. James
Hamilton--W. Forster--H. Ierson--Cardinal Wiseman--Miall--Dr. Wolf, &c.,
&c.

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"The subject is an interesting one, and it is treated with very
considerable ability. Mr. Ritchie has the valuable art of saying many
things in few words: he is never diffuse, never dull, and succeeds in
being graphic without becoming flippant. Occasionally his strength of
thought and style borders rather too closely on coarseness; but this
fault of vigorous natures is counterbalanced by compensatory merit--by an
utter absence of cant, a manly grasp of thought, and a wise and genial
human-heartedne