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evised edition of Mr. J. Ewing Ritchie's very interesting and well-written sketches, entitled "The Night Side of London." The present issue contains some additional matter, giving the benefit of the author's most recent observations."--_Morning Star_. "Much information is given which is both curious and interesting; and the comments and suggestions put forward by the author are full of sound sense and high toned morality."--_City Press_. * * * * * In Crown 8vo, price 10_s._ 6_d._, BRITISH SENATORS; OR, POLITICAL SKETCHES, PAST AND PRESENT. * * * * * CONTENTS. Inside the House.--The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Stanley Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, Mr. Layard, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Sir R. Peel, C. Gilpin, Esq., the Right Hon. H. Brand, the Right Hon. J. Bright, Jacob Bright, Esq., P. Taylor, Esq., J. White, Esq., G. Melly, Esq., T. Hughes, Esq., A. S. Ayrton, Esq., E. Baines, Esq., H. S. P. Winterbotham, Esq., J. Cowen, Esq., Mr. Alderman Lusk, Sir F. Crossley, Mr. Newdegate, G. H. Whalley, Esq., C. Reed, Esq., S. Morley, Esq., H. Richard, Esq., W. M'Arthur, Esq., Milner Gibson, J. A. Roebuck, B. Osborne, Edward Miall, the Right Hon. J. Whiteside, J. S. Mill, Lord J. Russell, Lord Lytton, Viscount Palmerston, Sir J. Graham, W. J. Fox, R. Cobden; T. S. Duncombe, H. Drummond, Sir C. Napier, Sir C. Lewis, Lord Herbert. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "A critic, whether clever or otherwise, may be allowed to congratulate Mr. Ewing-Ritchie on the sparkling and intelligent volume which he has been able to put together out of a number of personal sketches written at various dates within the last few years. It is difficult to write personal sketches of living celebrities with entire good taste; but we think the author of this book has gone near to mastering the difficulty. The characteristics of public men are struck off with real felicity. Mr. Ewing-Ritchie writes in a pointed, perspicuous, somewhat _staccato_ manner, and is never too long. His volume is one thoroughly well adapted for its purpose."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. "Mr. Ritchie seems to have hit the happy medium in simply outlining the characters of the men whom he
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