CONTENTS.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, FROM THE STRANGERS' GALLERY.
A NIGHT WITH THE LORDS.
THE REPORTERS' GALLERY.
THE LOBBY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DURING THE SESSION.
OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
A SUNDAY AT THE OBELISK.
EXETER HALL.
THE DERBY.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.
THE PENNY GAFF.
RAG FAIR.
THE COMMERCIAL ROAD and the coal-whippers .
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
PORTLAND PLACE.
MARK-LANE.
PREACHING AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
AN OMNIBUS YARD.
THE NEW CATTLE MARKET.
THE GOVERNMENT OFFICE
PATERNOSTER ROW.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of
“the night-side of london,” “the london pulpit,” etc.
“Then I saw in my dream, that, when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair.”
Bunyan.
london:
W. TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
1859.
london:
printer and galpin, belle sauvage printing works,
ludgate hill, e.c.
to
HENRY AYSCOUGH THOMPSON, ESQ.
this work,
As a trifling Testimonial of Esteem,
IS DEDICATED,
by his friend,
THE AUTHOR.