LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1875.
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LONDON:
SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
CONTENTS.
| chap. | page | |
| [I.] | London Arabs | [1] |
| [II.] | East London Arabs | [11] |
| [III.] | London Arabs in Canada | [21] |
| [IV.] | Waifs and Strays | [29] |
| [V.] | A Lunatic Ball | [38] |
| [VI.] | A Baby Show | [51] |
| [VII.] | A Night in a Bakehouse | [58] |
| [VIII.] | A London Slave Market | [67] |
| [IX.] | Tea and Experience | [73] |
| [X.] | Sunday Linnet-singing | [85] |
| [XI.] | A Woman's Rights Debate | [92] |
| [XII.] | An Open-Air Tichborne Meeting | [100] |
| [XIII.] | Sunday in a People's Garden | [108] |
| [XIV.] | Utilizing the Young Ladies | [116] |
| [XV.] | Fairlop Friday | [122] |
| [XVI.] | A Christmas Dip | [129] |
| [XVII.] | Boxing-day on the Streets | [134] |
| [XVIII.] | The Vigil of the Derby | [141] |
| [XIX.] | The Wifeslayer's "Home" | [150] |
| [XX.] | Bathing in the Far East | [157] |
| [XXI.] | Among the Quakers | [164] |
| [XXII.] | Penny Readings | [172] |
| [XXIII.] | Darwinism on the Devil | [179] |
| [XXIV.] | Peculiar People | [198] |
| [XXV.] | Interviewing an Astrologer | [204] |
| [XXVI.] | A Barmaid Show | [212] |
| [XXVII.] | A Private Execution | [217] |
| [XXVIII.] | Breaking up for the Holidays | [224] |
| [XXIX.] | Psychological Ladies | [228] |
| [XXX.] | Secularism on Bunyan | [233] |
| [XXXI.] | Al Fresco Infidelity | [242] |
| [XXXII.] | An "Indescribable Phenomenon" | [250] |
| [XXXIII.] | A Lady Mesmerist | [260] |
| [XXXIV.] | A Psychopathic Institution | [269] |
| [XXXV.] | A Phrenological Evening | [277] |
| [XXXVI.] | A Spiritual Picnic | [284] |
| [XXXVII.] | A Ghostly Conference | [290] |
| [XXXVIII.] | An Evening's Diablerie | [300] |
| [XXXIX.] | Spiritual Athletes | [307] |
| [XL.] | "Spotting" Spirit Mediums | [313] |
| [XLI.] | A Séance for Sceptics | [320] |
| [XLII.] | An Evening with the Higher Spirits | [328] |
| [XLIII.] | Spirit Forms | [340] |
| [XLIV.] | Sitting with a Sibyl | [347] |
| [XLV.] | Spiritualists and Conjurers | [355] |
| [XLVI.] | Pros and Cons of Spiritualism | [362] |
INTRODUCTION.
It is perhaps scarcely necessary to say that I use the term Mystic, as applied to the larger portion of this volume, in its technical sense to signify my own initiation into some of the more occult phases of metropolitan existence. It is only to the Spiritualistic, or concluding portion of my work, that the word applies in its ordinary signification.
C. M. D.