The Variety and Quality of the Imposture.—Superior p. 242 Accomplishments of the Modern Practitioner.—The Recipe for Success.—The Power of “Cheek.”—“Chanting” and the “Shallow Lay.”—Estimates of their Paying Value.—The Art of touching Women’s Hearts.—The Half-resentful Trick.—The Loudon “Cadger.”—The Height of the “Famine Season.” CHAPTER XV. GENTEEL ADVERTISING BEGGARS. The Newspaper Plan and the delicate Process.—Forms of 259 Petition.—Novel Applications of Photography.—Personal Attractions of the Distressed.—Help, or I perish! IV. Fallen Women. CHAPTER XVI. THIS CURSE. The Difficulty in handling it.—The Question of its p. 271 Recognition.—The Argyll Rooms.—Mr. Acton’s Visit there.—The Women and their Patrons.—The Floating Population of Windmill-street.—Cremorne Gardens in the Season CHAPTER XVII. THE PLAIN FACTS AND FIGURES OF PROSTITUTION. Statistics of Westminster, Brompton, and Pimlico.—Methods p. 281 of conducting the nefarious Business.—Aristocratic Dens.—The High Tariff.—The Horrors of the Social Evil.—The Broken Bridge behind the Sinner.—“Dress Lodgers.”—There’s always a “Watcher.”—Soldiers and Sailors.—The “Wrens of the Curragh” CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE QUESTION. The Laws applying to Street-walkers.—The Keepers of the p. 304 Haymarket Night-houses.—Present Position of the Police-magistrates.—Music-hall Frequenters.—Refreshment-bars.—Midnight Profligacy—“Snuggeries.”—Over-zealous Blockheads. CHAPTER XIX. SUGGESTIONS. Ignoring the Evil.—Punishment fit for the “Deserter” and p. 324 the Seducer.—The “Know-nothing” and “Do-nothing” Principle.—The Emigration of Women of Bad Character V. The Curse of Drunkenness. CHAPTER XX. ITS POWER. The crowning Curse.—No form of sin or sorrow in which it p. 332 does not play a part.—The “Slippery Stone” of Life.—Statistics.—Matters not growing worse.—The Army Returns.—The System of Adulteration CHAPTER XXI. ATTEMPTS TO ARREST IT. The Permissive Liquors Bill.—Its Advocates and their p. 351 Arguments.—The Drunkenness of the Nation.—Temperance Facts and Anecdotes.—Why the Advocates of Total Abstinence do not make more headway.—Moderate Drinking.—Hard Drinking.—The Mistake about childish Petitioners VI. Betting Gamblers. CHAPTER XXII. “ADVERTISING TIPSTERS” AND “BETTING COMMISSIONERS.” The Vice of Gambling on the increase among the p. 377 Working-classes.—Sporting “Specs.”—A “Modus.”—Turf Discoveries.—Welshers.—The Vermin of the