Part I. Rambles in gipsydom. |
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Origin of the Gipsies and their Names | 1 |
Article in The Daily News | 8 |
The Travels of the Gipsies | 9 |
Acts of Parliament relating to the Gipsies | 16 |
Article in The Edinburgh Review | 23 |
,, The Saturday Review | 25 |
Professor Bott on the Gipsies | 29 |
The Changars of India | 32 |
The Doms of India | 33 |
The Sanseeas of India | 35 |
The Nuts of India | 36 |
Grellmann on the Gipsies | 39 |
Gipsies of Notting Hill | 40 |
Rev. Charles Wesley | 42 |
The Number of Gipsies | 44 |
Part II. Commencement of the Crusade. |
Work begun | 48 |
Letter to The Standard and Daily Chronicle | 51 |
Leading Article in The Standard | 53 |
Correspondence in The Standard | 59 |
Mr. Leland’s Letter, &c., &c. | 60 |
My Reply | 66 |
Leicester Free Press | 69 |
Article in The Derby Daily Telegraph | 70 |
„ The Figaro | 73 |
Letter in The Daily News | 75 |
Mr. Gorrie’s Letter | 78 |
My Reply | 79 |
Leading Article in The Standard | 82 |
May’s Aldershot Advertiser | 87 |
Article in Hand and Heart | 90 |
Article in The Illustrated London News | 91 |
Leading Article in The Daily News | 92 |
Social Science Congress Paper | 95 |
Article in Birmingham Daily Mail | 102 |
„ The Weekly Dispatch | 106 |
„ The Weekly Times | 109 |
„ The Croydon Chronicle | 117 |
„ Primitive Methodist | 119 |
„ Illustrated London News | 121 |
„ The Quiver | 126 |
Letter in Daily News and Chronicle | 127 |
Article in Christian World | 129 |
,, Sunday School Chronicle | 132 |
„ Unitarian Herald | 134 |
„ Weekly Times | 135 |
Part III. The Treatment the Gipsies have received in this Country. |
The Social History of our Country | 142 |
Acts of Parliament concerning the Gipsies | 145 |
Treatment of the Gipsies in Scotland, Spain, and Denmark | 150 |
Efforts put forth to improve their Condition | 155 |
His Majesty George III. and the Dying Gipsy | 161 |
Mr. Crabb at Southampton in 1827 | 164 |
Fiction and the Gipsies | 166 |
Hubert Petalengro’s Gipsy Trip to Norway | 169 |
Esmeralda’s Song | 174 |
George Borrow’s Travels in Spain | 177 |
Romance and Poetry about the Gipsies | 183 |
Dean Stanley’s Prize Poem | 190 |
Part IV. Gipsy Life in a Variety of Aspects. |
Persecution, Missionary Efforts, and Romance | 192 |
The Gipsy Contrast and Punch | 193 |
Gipsy Slang | 195 |
Rees and Borrow’s Description of the Gipsies | 199 |
Leland among the Russian Gipsies | 201 |
Burning a Russian Fortune-teller | 203 |
A Welsh Gipsy’s Letter | 208 |
Ryley Bosvil and his Poetry: a Sad Example | 213 |
My Visit to Canning Town Gipsies | 220 |
Article in The Weekly Times | 222 |
My Son’s Visit to Barking Road | 227 |
Mrs. Simpson, a Christian Gipsy | 228 |
Part V. The Sad Condition of the Gipsies, with Suggestions for their Improvement. |
Gipsy Beauty and Songsters | 237 |
Gipsy Poetry | 239 |
Smart and Crofton | 239 |
A Little Gipsy Girl’s Letter | 242 |
Scotch Gipsies | 243 |
Gipsy Trickery | 244 |
My Visit to the Gipsies at Kensal Green | 248 |
Fortune-telling and other Sins | 249 |
Wretched Condition of the Gipsies | 254 |
Hungarian Gipsies | 259 |
Visit to Cherry Island | 260 |
The Cleanliness and Food of the Gipsies | 262 |
A Gipsy Woman’s Opinion upon Religion | 264 |
Gipsy Faithfulness and Fidelity | 264 |
A Visit to Hackney Marshes | 266 |
Sickness among the Gipsies | 270 |
A Gipsy Woman’s Funeral | 271 |
Gipsies and the Workhouse | 274 |
Education of the Gipsy Children Sixty Years ago | 274 |
Mission Work among the Gipsies | 275 |
Gipsy Children upon Turnham Green and Wandsworth Common | 276 |
Sad Condition of the Gipsy Children | 277 |
The Hardships of the Gipsy Women | 281 |
Efforts put forth in Hungary and other Countries | 282 |
Things made by the Gipsies | 284 |
Pity for the Gipsies | 285 |
What the State has done for the Thugs | 286 |
The Remedy | 287 |
My Reasons for Government Interference | 289 |