cle_.

"These graphic and powerful sketches, the result of keen, extensive
observation and high literary talent."--_Alliance Weekly News_.

"We hail Mr. Ritchie as a social reformer, and trust he will not merely
rest satisfied with exposing, but will seek at the same time, by personal
effort, to illume, 'The Night Side of London.'"--_The Weekly Journal of
the Scottish Temperance League_.

"We have kept Mr. Ritchie's book lying on our table, hoping that we might
find an opportunity for making it the basis of an article on the fearful
evils which it discloses. We must be satisfied, however, for the
present, with recommending all our readers who are anxious to promote the
social and moral regeneration of our great cities to read it carefully;
and to remember, while they read, that London does not stand alone, but
that, all our larger towns are cursed with abominations, such as those
which Mr. Ritchie has so vigorously and effectually
described."--_Eclectic Review_.

"It sketches and spreads out before us many of the Night Scenes of London
with great vividness and truth."--_The Christian News_.

"It is a book of off-hand sketches, but they afford the reader many truly
instructive glimpses of those apples of Sodom and grapes of Gomorrah--the
amusements that are furnished for the metropolitan public by the vendors
of intoxicating liquors."--_Evangelical Repository_.

"Anything of their sort more striking and vivacious cannot be conceived;
the more complete descriptions are as buoyant and racy as the briefer; a
few strokes of the pen place a scene clearly before the mental vision,
and in very few instances can it be reasonably charged upon the writer
that he is sacrificing fact to fancy, the literal to the ideal. Then
comes the caution, wisely insinuated, the moral reading of the gay
illusion, the exhibition of the interior corruption of the fruit, fair
and fascinating to behold. So suggestively, yet so skilfully, is this
done, that we should not be surprised to hear that the perusal of this
volume had drawn away many votaries of vice from its debasing follies.
Certain we are that the author's dramatic style is used with wonderful
effect, and in a manner that we hope to see long employed on kindred
subjects and for kindred ends."--_Weekly Record_.

* * * * *

LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.

***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONDON PULPIT***