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fairness and justice--an admirable trait, if we recollect how much the
spirit of partisanship governs such strictures as a rule."--_Weekly
Dispatch_.

"A sketch of the comparative force of the religious denominations in
London, and notes upon the chief popular preachers, orthodox or
dissentient, republished from a newspaper--we think the Weekly News and
Chronicle. The book, which is written in a sufficiently impartial
spirit, will interest many people and offend few."--_Examiner_.

"In this volume we have within a moderate space pen-and-ink sketches of
most of the popular preachers of the metropolis. We are bound to say
that they are drawn with fidelity, and that the admirers of each Sabbath
orator whose mental lineaments are placed before us will easily recognise
the prominent features of the original. Although brief, they evince
discrimination and talent; a fluent style being one of their chief
recommendations, not much space is devoted to each. The writer only
reviews the most striking characteristics, and his sympathies are
manifestly with those who display most liberal and manly tendencies in
their religious expositions."--_Sunday Times_.

"What Mr. Francis did some few years since for the parliamentary orators
of the age, Mr. Ritchie has in the volume before us effected for the
pulpit orators of the day. In brief but graphic delineations, he gives
daguerreotypes, as it were, of the living manners of the chief popular
preachers of various Christian denominations."--_The Church and State
Gazette_.

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Just Published, price 3_s._ 6_d._, bound in cloth,

THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

BY
JAMES EWING RITCHIE,
AUTHOR OF "THE LONDON PULPIT."

Contents: Introduction--Seeing a Man Hanged--Catherine-Street--The Bal
Masque--Up the Haymarket--Canterbury Hall--Ratcliff-Highway--Judge and
Jury Clubs--The Cave of Harmony--Discussion Clubs--Cider
Cellars--Leicester-Square--Dr. Johnson's--The Sporting Public-house--The
Public-house with a Billiard-room--The Respectable Public-house--The
Hungerford Music Hall--Highbury Barn--Boxing Night--The
Mogul--Caldwell's--Cremorne--The Costermongers' Free and Easy--The
Southwark Music Hall--The Eagle Tavern--The Police Court--The Lunatic
Asylum.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

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