Palace and Hovel; Or, Phases of London LifeKirwan, Daniel Joseph
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Palace and Hovel; Or, Phases of London Life
Kirwan, Daniel Joseph
London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Street Hawkers--Venders of Old Boots and Shoes--The Dog Fancier--Bird
Sellers--Coke Peddlers--Bum Boatman--Stock in Trade--How Dick
gets his Porridge--"I Gets it for Cigar-Stumps"--Street Acrobats--Punch
and Judy Show, 391
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND NATIONAL GALLERY.
Its Origin--Laying the Foundation--Reading Room--Departments of the
Museum--The Galleries and Saloons--The Three Libraries--What can
be seen--Nelson's Monument--Pictures and Works of Art in the National
Gallery--The Great Masters--Free to the Working People, 410
CHAPTER XXVIII.
NAKED AND NEEDY.
Infanticide--The Benevolent Captain--Foundling Hospital--Admission of
Children--Great Numbers Received--How they Dine--How they Sleep--Washing
the Waifs--Charitable Institutions--An Interesting Sight--Innumerable
Bequests, 420
CHAPTER XXIX.
MARKETS AND FOOD.
Amount of Food Sold--Inspections--Metropolitan Cattle Market--New
Smithfield Market--Covent Garden Market--Hot Coffee Girl--Vegetable
Market--The Baked Potato Man--The Jews' Orange Market, 435
CHAPTER XXX.
SECRETS OF A RIVER.
Waterloo Bridge--The Pale-Faced Girl--Three O'clock in the
Morning--Weary of Life--A Leap from the Parapet--Fruitless
Attempt to Save--A Sad Sight--The Wages of Sin is Death, 452
CHAPTER XXXI.
INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH.
Leicester Square--Foreign Cafe in Coventry Street--The Abode of Sir
Joshua Reynolds--The Residence of William Hogarth--Royal Alhambra
Palace--The Great Social Evil--"Wotten Wow"--In the Canteen--The
Old Sinner--The Tulip and the Daisy, 461
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE "ARGYLE," "BARNES'" AND "CASINO."
The Haymarket by Night--The Argyle Rooms--Fast Young Men--Paint
and Jewelry--Silks and Satins--Free and Easy--Barnes'--"Holborn
Casino"--A Magnificent Saloon--Good Night, 476
CHAPTER XXXIII.
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
Its History and Dimensions--Destruction of Old St. Paul's--Annual
Revenues--Prices of Admission--Monuments to Nelson--Burial-Place of
Wellington--Nelson's Funeral--A Grand Sight--"I am the Resurrection
and the Life," 486
CHAPTER XXXIV.
GOING TO THE PLAY.
Beautiful Miss Neilson--The Lord Chamberlain a Censor--Royal
Victoria Theatre--Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres--A
"Gin Public" in the New Cut--The Gallery of the "Vic"--The
Chorus of "Immensekoff," 493
CHAPTER XXXV.
BILLINGSGATE FISH MARKET.
Profit on Fish--Oyster Boats--Number of Fishing Vessels--The Fish
Woman--The Old Style of Dress--Breakfast at Billingsgate--Capital
Invested--Immense Sales, 508
CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE INNS OF COURT.
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