DIATE PUBLICATION,
A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition of

THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

THIRD EDITION.
BY J. EWING RITCHIE,

AUTHOR OF "ABOUT LONDON," ETC.

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NEW WORK BY MR. RITCHIE.

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JUST PUBLISHED; PRICE FIVE SHILLINGS,

ABOUT LONDON.

BY
J. EWING RITCHIE,
AUTHOR OF
"_The Night Side of London_," "_Here and there in London_,"
"_The London Pulpit_," _&c._

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Contents:--Newspaper People--Spiritualism--About Coal--Highgate--Tom
Tidler's Ground--Westminster Abbey--London Charities--Pedestrianism--Over
London Bridge--The House of Commons and the Early Closing Movement--Town
Morals--The same subject continued--London Matrimonial--Breach-of-Promise
Cases--The London Volunteers--Criminal London--Concerning Cabs--Free
Drinking Fountains--Conclusion.

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and highly respectable class."--_Athenaeum_.

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expected from a perceptive and accurate observer, who has gained his
experience from himself, while the descriptive writing is that of a
practised hand."--_Illustrated London News_.

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written by one whose object is as much to instruct as to amuse, and who
succeeds without any apparent effort in doing both. We say without any
apparent effort, because Mr. Ritchie's sketches are too bold to be stiff,
his style too fluent and natural to be laboured. Notwithstanding this,
'About London' displays an amount of industrious research very rarely met
with, and a knowledge of men and manners which only experience--and
active experience, moreover--can supply."--_Literary Gazette_.

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unaffected style in which they are treated is always sure to gratify
without wearying the reader."--_Morning Advertiser_.

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subjects, such as 'The Night Side of Loudon,'