INDEX.
Reading edition
Part I. Rambles in gipsydom.
page
Origin of the Gipsies and their Names 1
Article in The Daily News 8
The Travels of the Gipsies 9
Acts of Parliament relating to the Gipsies 16
Article in The Edinburgh Review 23
,, The Saturday Review 25
Professor Bott on the Gipsies 29
The Changars of India 32
The Doms of India 33
The Sanseeas of India 35
The Nuts of India 36
Grellmann on the Gipsies 39
Gipsies of Notting Hill 40
Rev. Charles Wesley 42
The Number of Gipsies 44
Part II. Commencement of the Crusade.
Work begun 48
Letter to The Standard and Daily Chronicle 51
Leading Article in The Standard 53
Correspondence in The Standard 59
Mr. Leland’s Letter, &c., &c. 60
My Reply 66
Leicester Free Press 69
Article in The Derby Daily Telegraph 70
„ The Figaro 73
Letter in The Daily News 75
Mr. Gorrie’s Letter 78
My Reply 79
Leading Article in The Standard 82
May’s Aldershot Advertiser 87
Article in Hand and Heart 90
Article in The Illustrated London News 91
Leading Article in The Daily News 92
Social Science Congress Paper 95
Article in Birmingham Daily Mail 102
„ The Weekly Dispatch 106
„ The Weekly Times 109
„ The Croydon Chronicle 117
„ Primitive Methodist 119
„ Illustrated London News 121
„ The Quiver 126
Letter in Daily News and Chronicle 127
Article in Christian World 129
,, Sunday School Chronicle 132
„ Unitarian Herald 134
„ Weekly Times 135
Part III. The Treatment the Gipsies have received in this Country.
The Social History of our Country 142
Acts of Parliament concerning the Gipsies 145
Treatment of the Gipsies in Scotland, Spain, and Denmark 150
Efforts put forth to improve their Condition 155
His Majesty George III. and the Dying Gipsy 161
Mr. Crabb at Southampton in 1827 164
Fiction and the Gipsies 166
Hubert Petalengro’s Gipsy Trip to Norway 169
Esmeralda’s Song 174
George Borrow’s Travels in Spain 177
Romance and Poetry about the Gipsies 183
Dean Stanley’s Prize Poem 190
Part IV. Gipsy Life in a Variety of Aspects.
Persecution, Missionary Efforts, and Romance 192
The Gipsy Contrast and Punch 193
Gipsy Slang 195
Rees and Borrow’s Description of the Gipsies 199
Leland among the Russian Gipsies 201
Burning a Russian Fortune-teller 203
A Welsh Gipsy’s Letter 208
Ryley Bosvil and his Poetry: a Sad Example 213
My Visit to Canning Town Gipsies 220
Article in The Weekly Times 222
My Son’s Visit to Barking Road 227
Mrs. Simpson, a Christian Gipsy 228
Part V. The Sad Condition of the Gipsies, with Suggestions for their Improvement.
Gipsy Beauty and Songsters 237
Gipsy Poetry 239
Smart and Crofton 239
A Little Gipsy Girl’s Letter 242
Scotch Gipsies 243
Gipsy Trickery 244
My Visit to the Gipsies at Kensal Green 248
Fortune-telling and other Sins 249
Wretched Condition of the Gipsies 254
Hungarian Gipsies 259
Visit to Cherry Island 260
The Cleanliness and Food of the Gipsies 262
A Gipsy Woman’s Opinion upon Religion 264
Gipsy Faithfulness and Fidelity 264
A Visit to Hackney Marshes 266
Sickness among the Gipsies 270
A Gipsy Woman’s Funeral 271
Gipsies and the Workhouse 274
Education of the Gipsy Children Sixty Years ago 274
Mission Work among the Gipsies 275
Gipsy Children upon Turnham Green and Wandsworth Common 276
Sad Condition of the Gipsy Children 277
The Hardships of the Gipsy Women 281
Efforts put forth in Hungary and other Countries 282
Things made by the Gipsies 284
Pity for the Gipsies 285
What the State has done for the Thugs 286
The Remedy 287
My Reasons for Government Interference 289