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London in
The Sixties

(WITH A FEW DIGRESSIONS)

By
ONE OF THE OLD BRIGADE

London:
EVERETT & CO. LTD.
42 ESSEX STREET,
STRAND, W.C.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	1860	[1]
II.	The Tower	[13]
III.	Mott’s and Cremorne	[25]
IV.	Kate Hamilton’s and Leicester Square	[37]
V.	The Night Houses of the Haymarket	[48]
VI.	Evans’s and the Dials	[61]
VII.	The Ratcliff Highway	[73]
VIII.	The Booths on Epsom Downs	[83]
IX.	Racing par Excellence	[94]
X.	The Epidemic of Cards	[111]
XI.	The Coup de Jarnac	[127]
XII.	The Public Hanging of the Pirates	[130]
XIII.	The Hostelries of the Sixties	[140]
XIV.	The Drama (Legitimate and Otherwise)	[151]
XV.	Mostly “Otherwise” (continued)	[163]
XVI.	Usurers and Millionaires	[175]
XVII.	Some Curious Fish of the Sixties	[182]
XVIII.	Spiritualism and Realism	[192]
XIX.	The Rock and the Cape	[205]
XX.	Eastward-ho!	[222]
XXI.	The Guillotine and Madame Rachel	[232]
XXII.	Reminiscences of the Purple	[243]
XXIII.	Dhuleep Singh and Fifty Years after	[257]
XXIV.	The last of the Old Brigade	[264]

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