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Title: The Night Side of London

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Release Date: June 11, 2010 [eBook #32774]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1858 William Tweedie edition by David Price, email
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THE
NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

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BY
J. EWING RITCHIE,
AUTHOR OF THE "LONDON PULPIT," ETC.

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"In cities vice is hidden with most ease.
Or seen with least reproach.
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I do confess them nurseries of the arts.
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Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim'd
The fairest capital of all the world,
By riot and incontinence the worst."

COWPER.

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Second Edition, revised.

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LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
MDCCCLVIII.

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JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1
SEEING A MAN HANGED 34
CATHERINE-STREET 45
THE BAL MASQUE 52
UP THE HAYMARKET 59
THE CANTERBURY HALL 67
RATCLIFFE-HIGHWAY 75
JUDGE AND JURY CLUBS 85
THE CAVE OF HARMONY 92
DISCUSSION CLUBS 99
THE CYDER CELLARS 108
LEICESTER-SQUARE