CONTENTS

PART I

THE TWO NATIONS

PAGE
[Punch AND THE PEOPLE]3
[CHARTISM]49
[MACHINERY AND MONEY-MAKING] 61
[EDUCATION]81
[RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY]91
[FROM PEACE TO WAR]112

ENTR'ACTE

[LONDON IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY] 141

PART II

THE SOCIAL FABRIC

[THE COURT]165
[THE OLD NOBILITY]201
[SOCIETY—EXCLUSIVE, GENTEEL, AND SHABBY GENTEEL]208
[THE LIBERAL PROFESSIONS]232
[WOMEN IN THE 'FORTIES AND 'FIFTIES]243
[FASHION IN DRESS]258
[THE DRAMA, OPERA, MUSIC, AND THE FINE ARTS]271
[PERSONALITIES]304