Transcribed from the 1880 Tinsley Brothers edition by DavidPrice,

DAYS AND NIGHTS
IN LONDON;

OR,

STUDIES IN BLACK ANDGRAY.

BY
J. EWING RITCHIE,

AUTHOROF
“THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON,”“RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDON,”
“BRITISH SENATORS,”ETC.

LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE ST.,STRAND.
1880.
[All rights reserved.]

p. ivCHARLESDICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

p.vPREFACE.

London has vastly altered since the Author, some quarter of acentury ago, described some of the scenes which occurred nightlyin its midst of which respectable people were ignorant, whichcorrupted its young men and young women, and which rendered it ascandal and a horror to civilisation itself.  Thepublication of his work, “The Night Side ofLondon”—of which nearly eight thousand copies weresold—did something, by calling the attention of Members ofParliament and philanthropists to the subject, to improve thescenes and to abate the scandal.  As a further contributionto the same subject, the present volume is published.  EveryEnglishman must take an interest in London—a city which ithas taken p.vinearly two thousand years to build; whose sons, toenrich which, have sailed on every sea and fought or traded onevery land; and which apparently, as the original home and centreof English-speaking people, must grow with the growth andstrengthen with the strength of the world.

Wrentham House, Hendon,
         February,1880.

p.viiCONTENTS.