ssarily spun out.
We have a few rapid dashes of the pencil, and then the mind is relieved
by a change of scene and person. . . . He displays considerable
discrimination of judgment, and a good deal of humour."--_The Inquirer_.

"There is considerable verisimilitude in these sketches, though they are
much too brief to be regarded as more than mere outlines. It is
possible, however, to throw character even into an outline, and this is
done with good effect in several of these smart and off-hand
compositions."--_Tait_.

"It is lively, freshly written, at times powerful, and its facts
carefully put together. It bears the stamp of an earnest spirit, eager
in its search after truth, and strongly set against affectation and
pretence of every sort."--_Globe_.

"Some of the sketches are very good."--_Literary Gazette_.

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_Just published_, _price_ 3_s._ 6_d._, _bound in cloth_, _Second
Edition_,
_Revised_.

THE NIGHT-SIDE OF LONDON.

BY
J. 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 done, 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 reflection