Transcribed from the 1858 William Tweedie edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
the
NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.
by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of the “london pulpit,” etc.
“In cities vice is hidden with most ease.
Or seen with least reproach.
* * *
I do confess them nurseries of the arts.
* * *
Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim’d
The fairest capital of all the world,
By riot and incontinence the worst.”Cowper.
Second Edition, revised.
LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
mdccclviii.
john childs and son, printers.
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 | [115] |
| dr johnson’s tavern | [123] |
| the sporting public-house | [131] |
| the public-house with a billiard-room | [137] |
| the respectable public-house | [143] |
| night-houses | [149] |
| highbury barn | [160] |
| boxing night | [166] |
| the mogul | [173] |
| caldwell’s | [180] |
| cremorne | [191] |
| the costermonger’s free-and-easy | [200] |
| the police-court | [208] |
| the eagle tavern | [218] |
| the lunatic asylum | [227] |