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.