NOTE.--_The greater number of these stories and studies were first printed in_ The National Observer; _the introduction, in a slightly different form, in_ Macmillan's Magazine; _"That Brute Simmons" and "A Conversion" have been published in_ The Pall Mall Budget; _and "The Red Cow Group" is new._ It was considered an intrepid thing for Walter Besant to do when, twelve or thirteen years ago, he invaded the great East End of London and drew upon its unknown wealth of varied material to people that most charming novel, "All Sorts and Conditions of Men." Until then the West End knew little of its contiguous neighbor in the East. Dickens's kaleidoscopic views of low life in the South of London w…
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