CHAPTER I
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THE GREAT ACCEPTANCE[1]
CHAPTER II
BEGINNINGS[32]
CHAPTER III
MORE BEGINNINGS[49]
CHAPTER IV
DAVID AND JONATHAN[83]
CHAPTER V
THE BATTLE OF THE MUSIC HALLS[104]
CHAPTER VI
THE FIGHT ON THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL[135]
CHAPTER VII
THE FIGHT FOR THE PURITY OF THE EAST END[153]
CHAPTER VIII
FRUITION![168]
CHAPTER IX
THE APOSTLE OF TEMPERANCE[210]
CHAPTER X
LORD OF THE MANOR OF OSEA[239]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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FREDK. N. CHARRINGTON[Frontispiece]
THE BREWERY[10]
A VERY EARLY FAMILY GROUP[22]
LOOKING OUT UPON LIFE[38]
DAVID AND JONATHAN[90]
CHARRINGTON'S MORAL MICROSCOPE[118]
FREDERICK CHARRINGTON IN 1912[138]
MR. CHARRINGTON APPARENTLY SNUFFED OUT[142]
THE GREAT ASSEMBLY HALL[196]
A CARTOON WHICH APPEARED IN FUN DURING THE PEOPLE'S PALACE AGITATION[219]
THE PIER, OSEA ISLAND, WITH MR. CHARRINGTON'S STEAMER, THE "ANNIE," APPROACHING[240]
THE SALTINGS, OSEA ISLAND[240]
TREE POINT, OSEA ISLAND[256]

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT ACCEPTANCE

In the year 1882 the most popular novelist of his day wrote as follows about the East End of London—