The mysteries and miseries of the great metropolis : with some adventures in the country, being the disguises and surprises of a New-York journalist
- Title
- The mysteries and miseries of the great metropolis : with some adventures in the country, being the disguises and surprises of a New-York journalist
- Alternative Titles
- Amateur vagabond
- Name
- Pember, Arthur
- Published
- D. Appleton: New York. 1874
- Physical Description
- v, 462 p. : front. (port.) 11 pl. ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Crime and criminals > New York (State) > New York.
- New York (N.Y.) > Poor.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Contents
- The purlieus of Water street after dark -- The amateur beggar -- After the gambling and panel houses -- A visit to Davy Jones's locker -- The bogus doctor -- The amateur curb-stone singer -- Life on the Erie canal -- Night and morning in the Tombs -- String 'em up -- The model coster-monger -- Down in a coal-mine -- Life in a circus -- A ride on an engine -- A night in an underground lodging-house -- The spirit-medium -- Painting à la mode -- The poor prisoner -- The life of a tramp -- The beggars' banquet -- "Been to the mines, sir?" The peep-show man -- Up and down Mont Blanc.
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