xiii, 319 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents
The descent -- Johnny Upright -- My lodging and some others -- A man and the abyss -- Those on the edge -- Frying-pan Alley and a glimpse of inferno -- A winner of the Victoria Cross -- The carter and the carpenter -- The spike -- Carrying the banner -- The peg -- Coronation day -- Dan Cullen, docker -- Hops and hoppers -- The sea wife -- Property versus person -- Inefficiency -- Wages -- The ghetto -- Coffe-houses and doss-houses -- The precariousness of life -- Suicide -- The children -- A vision of the night -- The hunger wail -- Drink, temperance, and thrift -- The management.
