CHAPTER I.
Ancient and Modern Prisons—Some of the City's Ancient Prisons—How Malefactors were Formerly Housed—Ancient Bridewells and Modern Jails,
CHAPTER II.
Criminals and their Haunts—The Past and Present Gangs of the City—How and Where they Herd—Prominent Characters that have passed into History,
CHAPTER III.
Street Arabs of Both Sexes—The Pretty Flower and News Girls—The Young Wharf Rats and their eventful Lives—How they all Live, where they Come From, and where they finally Finish their Career,
CHAPTER IV.
Store Girls—Their Fascinations, Foibles and Temptations,
CHAPTER V.
The Pretty Waiter Girl—Concert Saloons and how they are Managed—How the Pretty Waitresses Live and upon Whom, and how the Unwary are Fleeced and Beguiled—A Midnight Visit to one of the Dives,
CHAPTER VI.
Shoplifters—Who they are and how they are made—Their Methods of Operating and upon whom—The Fashionable Kleptomaniac and her Opposite—The Modern Devices of Female Thieves,
CHAPTER VII.
Kleptomania—Extraordinary Revelations—A Wealthy Kleptomaniac in the Toils of a Black-mailing Detective,
CHAPTER VIII.
Panel Houses and Panel Thieves—The Inmates—The Victims—The Gains—Complete Exposure of the Manner of Operation, and how Unsuspecting Persons are Robbed,
CHAPTER IX.
A Theatrical Romance—Kate Fisher, the Famous Mazeppa, involved—Manager Hemmings charged by Fast paced Mrs. Bethune with Larceny,
CHAPTER X.
A Mariner's Wooing—Captain Hazard's Gushing Letters—Breakers on a Matrimonial Lee Shore—He is Grounded on Divorce Shoals,
CHAPTER XI.
The Baron and "Baroness"—The Romance of Baron Henry Arnous de Reviere, and "The Buckeye Baroness," Helene Stille,
CHAPTER XII.
The Demi-monde,
CHAPTER XIII.
Passion's Slaves and Victims—A Matter of Untold History—The Terrible Machinery of the Law as a Means of Persecution—Edwin James's Rascality,
CHAPTERXIV.
Procuresses and their Victims—Clandestine Meetings at Seemingly Respectable Resorts—The "Introduction House,"
CHAPTER XV.
Quacks and Quackery—Specimen Advertisements—The Bait Held Out, and the Fish who are Expected to Bite,
CHAPTER XVI.
Abortion and the Abortionists—The Career of Madame Restell—Rosenzweig's Good Luck,
CHAPTER XVII.
Divorce—The Chicanery of Divorce Specialists—How Divorce Laws Vary in Certain Slates—Sweeping Amendments Necessary—Illustrative Cases,
CHAPTER XVIII.
Black-mail—Who Practice it, How it is Perpetrated, and Upon Whom—The Birds who are Caught, and the Fowlers who Ensnare them—With other Interesting Matters on the same Subject,
CHAPTER XIX.
About Detectives—The "Javerts," "Old Sleuths" and "Buckets" of Fiction as Contrasted with the Genuine Article—Popular Notions of Detective Work Altogether Erroneous—An Ex-detective's Views—The Divorce Detective,
CHAPTER XX.
Gambling and Gamblers—The Delusions that Control the Devotees of Policy—What the Mathematical Chances are Against the Players—Tricks in French Pools—"Bucking the Tiger"—"Ropers-in"—How Strangers are Victimized,
CHAPTER XXI.
Gambling made Easy—The Last Ingenious Scheme to Fool the Police—Flat-houses Turned into Gambling Houses—"Stud-horse Poker" and "Hide the Heart,"
CHAPTER XXII.
Slumming—Depravity of Life in Billy McGlory's—A Three-hours' Visit to the Place—Degraded Men and Lost Women who are Nightly in this Criminal Whirlpool,
CHAPTER XXIII.
Our Waste Basket—Contemporaneous Records and Memoranda of Interesting Cases,
Miss Ruff's Tribulations,
Astounding Degradation,
Fall of a Youthful, Beautiful and Accomplished Wife,
A French Beauty's Troubles,
Life on the Boston Boats,
An Eighty-year-old "Fence,"
Shoppers' Perils,