CRITIC.—I never read a more improbable story in my life.

AUTHOR.—Notwithstanding, it may be true.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM.

I.—Ab initio.

II.—Home, sweet Home!

III.—Work and Ideas.

IV.—Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History.

V.—Reasons and Resolves.

VI.—The Antagonism of Law and Necessity.

VII.—Malthus and Man.

VIII.—The Baby's First Translation.

PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM.

I.—The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word.

II.—The Protestant Detectoral Association.

III.—The Sacrament of Baptism.

IV.—Law on Behalf of Gospel.

V.—Magistrate's Law.

VI—Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench.

VII.—A Protestor, but not a Protestant.

VIII.—“See how these Christians love one another.”

IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences.

X.—The Force—and a Specimen of its Weakness.

XI.—The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace.

XII.—No Funds—no Faith, no Works.

XIII.—In transitu.

PART III. WHAT THE PARISH DID WITH HIM.

I.—Parochial Knots—to be untied without prejudice.

II.—A Board of Guardians.

III.—“The World is my Parish.”

IV.—Without prejudice to any one but the Guardians.

V.—An Ungodly Jungle.

VI.—Parochial Benevolence—and another translation.

PART IV. WHAT THE CLUBS AND POLITICIANS DID WITH HIM.

I.—Moved on.

II.—Club Ideas.

III.—A thorough-paced Reformer—if not a Revolutionary.

IV.—Very Broad Views.

V.—Party Tactics—and Political Obstructions to Social Reform.

VI.—Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body.

PART V. WHAT GINX'S BABY DID WITH HIMSELF.

The Last Chapter.