Category: History - British
It has been my fortune to see the worst slums of the Thames district of London, of Birmingham, and other English and foreign cities, the "water-side" of Quebec, and the Five Points and mud huts of New York, and a short time ago a motive stronger than curiosity induced me to ex...
This rickety "land" is not by any means in one of the worst closes in Edinburgh. It is not a haunt of the criminal classes. Vice and virtue live side by side, though the virtuou...
2. CHAPTER II.In the Old Town, where the population of a village or a fashionable square is constantly crammed into the six or seven storeys of one house, _room-to-room_ visitation, for it is...
4. CHAPTER IV.I have given the aspect of the houses and population of a particular district by daylight, avoiding all sensational details. The "night side" of the same is well known from desc...
1. CHAPTER I.It has been my fortune to see the worst slums of the Thames district of London, of Birmingham, and other English and foreign cities, the "water-side" of Quebec, and the Five Poi...