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