Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Vitriol and Balm of a Nineteenth-Century Prophet -- Editorial Note -- The Haunted and the Haunters -- Free Board and Lodging for Thieves -- The Delivering Angel -- The Ideal Commissioner -- The Opium Vice -- Frank J. Mumford -- Mumford of Ours -- "This Way? Or This?" -- Dog Days -- Police Board -- The Devil on Carondelet Street -- The Oarsmen -- Exthract from the Spach ov Paddy Whack -- The Tropical Palm -- (Away, Away) -- The Smile That Johnson Smole -- Crushing out the Vipers -- Military Salutes -- Boom-Boom -- Illustrated Letters from the People (June 24) -- Illustrated Letters from the People: "Boots!" -- The Amateur Musician -- The Last of Tilden and the Last of Grant -- Illustrated Letters from the People (June 28) -- The Unspeakable Velocipede -- The Bicycle Fiend's Defense -- The Organ Grinder -- Illustrated Letters from the People: "I Know YOU'LL Give Me One" -- The Nurse Maid -- Illustrated Letters from the People: My Office in My Hat -- Feminine Intolerance -- Hancock and English -- Morning Calls-Very Early -- The Go-at -- Oakland Park Scenery -- "Forty Fights to a Dance" -- Citizen-Executioner Sherman -- In the Vise -- Illustrated Letters from the People (July 12) -- The Last Shake of the Bloody Shirt -- How They Do It -- The Wolfish Dog -- Illustrated Letters from the People: Street Car Nuisances -- Ultra-Canal -- Dr. Tanner (July 18) -- "Shine?" -- Dr. Tanner (July 20) -- Illustrated Letters from the People: Mischievous Boys -- Illustrated Letters from the People (July 22) -- Illustrated Letters from the People: The Banana Curse -- Dr. Tanner (July 24) -- The Knife-Grinder -- Dr. Tanner's Present Aspect -- "The Direful Boost" -- ---! ---!! Mosquitoes!!! -- Illustrated Letters from the People: House Hunting Nuisance -- Attention, Rowdies! -- Taxpayers' Catechism.

Ah Sin on the Situation -- The Fatal Plunge -- Illustrated Letters from the People (August 4) -- Ins and Outs -- Under the Electric Light -- Dr. Tanner: Slams the Door on the Undertaker's Nose -- Scat! -- Seeking a Sensation -- Lake-Side Lickings -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Illustrated Letters from the People (August 12) -- Voluntary Contributions -- Jewell's Defence of Garfield -- By the Murmuring Waves -- Hunting for the Honest Eight -- Naughty Boys -- Ghosteses -- Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before -- Quack! Quack! -- The Chinese Vice -- Cat-ankarous -- Go-it -- Murder and Violence -- Char-coal -- Rowdyism Suppressed -- Not a Dream at All -- Our Ghouls -- The Witch -- Des Perches -- Washerwomen -- Sons of the Sea -- A Small Nuisance -- The Milkman -- Prickly Heat -- The Hand-Maiden -- Dandy-Traps -- Contraband -- The Indignant Dead -- Whited Sepulchres -- Dead Sea Fruit -- The Flower-Sellers -- The Man with the Small Electric Machine -- The Alligators -- The Police Board -- The Vendor of Wisdom -- The Curse of the Newspaper Vendor -- At the Photographer's -- Cakes and Candy -- The Puller of Noses -- Ye Pilot -- Awful Consequences of Poor Shooting -- A Warning to Advertisers -- Frantic Appeals for Help -- Police Efficiency -- The Master Spirit -- The Police Mutual Aid Society -- Illustrated Letters from the People: Another Chance for Reform -- You Pays Your Money, and You Takes Your Choice -- The Great Eastern -- The Wages of Sin -- That Verdict -- Poney Up! -- 329 -- Want to Investigate -- Statement of a Victim -- That Villainous Broker -- Improved Police Ideas -- Blackmailing -- Nothing like Self-Esteem -- Scourged to the Ballot -- The Smokers of Pipes -- The Festive -- Aïda -- How History Is Written -- Not 329 but 350 -- And He Spake to Them Another Parable -- Dreams of the Elector-Before and After -- Journalistic Dissection -- Youthful Smokers.

Commercial Statuary -- Spanish Moss -- Fire! -- All Saints! -- The Chinese Poison -- Dreams of the Ballet -- A Day of Reckoning -- Gladness in the Granite Building -- French Opera -- The Shooting Season -- That Piano Organ -- Une Première Danseuse -- The French Opera: Madame Emilie Ambre -- Recollections of the Theatrical Season -- Dissatisfied -- The French Opera House: Jourdan -- Those Furniture Men -- The French Opera House: Mauge -- The Bone of Contention -- The French Opera House (Enrico Utto) -- The French Opera: Gossi -- The Pelican's Ghost -- Something to Be Proud Of -- Thanksgiving -- British Recollections of New Orleans -- The Man Socially Loved -- Curious! -- An Artful Dodger -- After Thanksgiving -- Our Model Police Force -- "Oft in the Stilly Night," Etc. -- Ugh!! -- The French Opera: Mr. Momas, Leader of the Orchestra -- Moral Edification -- "Wet Enough for You?" -- Web-Footed -- Taxes -- Tantalizing -- Officers of the Law -- Significant Paragraphs from the President's Message -- Won't Wait Till the Holidays -- A Miller Who Couldn't Mill -- The Sanitary Conference -- The Inundations -- Notes on Columns -- Bibliography.