CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. SEEING A MAN HANGED. CATHERINE-STREET. THE BAL MASQUE, UP THE HAYMARKET. THE CANTERBURY HALL. RATCLIFFE-HIGHWAY. JUDGE AND JURY CLUBS. THE CAVE OF HARMONY. DISCUSSION CLUBS. THE CYDER CELLARS. LEICESTER-SQUARE. DR JOHNSON'S TAVERN. THE SPORTING PUBLIC-HOUSE THE PUBLIC-HOUSE WITH A BILLIARD-ROOM THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC-HOUSE NIGHT-HOUSES. HIGHBURY BARN. BOXING NIGHT. THE MOGUL, CALDWELL'S. CREMORNE. THE COSTERMONGERS' FREE-AND-EASY. THE POLICE-COURT THE EAGLE TAVERN THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. JUST PUBLISHED, Footnotes:
by
J. EWING RITCHIE,
author of the “london pulpit,” etc. “In cities vice is hidden with most ease.
Or seen with least reproach.
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I do confess them nurseries of the arts.
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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.
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