The Female and Domestic Bible Missions now number 230 paid agents, each with her district and lady superintendent, and expend some 11,000_l._ a year, exclusive of between 6000_l._ and 7000_l._ which is paid to it in instalments by the poor themselves for Bibles, clothes, and bedding. The Young Men’s Scripture Association has been very successful. Nearly 200 of a Sunday afternoon attend the Bible class in Aldersgate Street. It has twelve branches in different parts of the town. Connected with no denomination are six or seven chapels or rooms, where as they meet they break bread in the morning and preach the Gospel in the evening. In addition, the Plymouth Brethren have some thirty places of worship, and their dulness and isolation from the world, which cause them even to avoid discharging their duties as citizens as inconsistent with the spiritual life, indicate the little they need be taken into account as a religious body aiming in any way to influence the religious life of London. According to the late Mr. Buckle, good people really do very little good. I fancy this is the case as far as the Plymouth Brethren are concerned. * * * * * THE END. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. * * * * * In Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7_s._ 6_d._, THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON. NEW EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. * * * * * CONTENTS. Concerning London—Aristocratic Amusements—The Alhambra—The Modern Theatre—The Casino and the Argyll—The Bal Masqué—Judge and Jury Clubs—The Cave of Harmony—Discussion Clubs—Cremorne—Life in the East—Caldwell’s—The Strand as it was—The Police Court—Up the Haymarket—The Music Hall—Public-houses—Leicester Square—A Midnight Meeting. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. “Mr. Ritchie has with well-meant and terrible truthfulness described the temptations to which the youth of our great metropolis are exposed. ‘The Night Side of London’ is a fearful and, we believe, faithful representation of the extent to which unlawful and revolting licentiousness lays its bait and ruins its victims. . . . It is well that our employers of labour and those who are anxious to keep up the age-long conflict with the flesh and the devil should know how sleepless are the powers of evil, how omnipresent the inducements to illicit pleasure. Our author has touched this desperate evil with deep conviction, extensive knowledge, and delicate hand.”—_British Quarterly Review_.