Seventh Edition , Crown 8 vo. price 6 s. 
Curiosities of Civilization. 
Being Essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. 
Dr. Andrew Wynter. 
By 
CONTENTS. 
The London Commissariat. 
Food and its Adulterations. 
Advertisements. 
The Zoological Gardens. 
Rats. 
Woolwich Arsenal. 
Shipwrecks. 
Lodging, Food, and Dress of 
Soldiers. 
The Electric Telegraph. 
Fires and Fire Insurance. 
The Police and the Thieves. 
Mortality in Trades and Profes¬ 
sions. 
Lunatic Asylums. 
“ We shall look in vain, for example, two centuries back, for anything like an equiva¬ 
lent to the volume before us. Some of the articies are mainiy deriveri from observations 
made in the course of professional studies ; others are at least cognate to the subjects 
which occupy a physician’s hourly thoughts ; all are more or less instructive as to 
certain phases of our civilization, and the strange elements it holds in suspension. 
Some of the incidents are of unparalleled magnitude, quite as striking as anything 
contained in the wonder-books of our ancestors.”— Times. 
Crown 8 vo. price 6s., Eighth Edition , 
Our Social Bees. 
Pictures of Town and Country, and other Papers. 
Andrew Wynter, M.D. 
By 
Contents :—The Post-office.—London Smoke.—Mock Auctions.— 
Hyde Park.—The Suction Post.—St. George and the Dragon.—The 
India-rubber Artist.—Our Peck of Dirt.—The Artificial Man.— 
Britannia’s Smelling-bottle.—The Hunterian Museum at the College of 
Surgeons.—A Chapter on Shop Windows.—Commercial Grief.— 
Orchards in Cheapside.—The Wedding Bonnet.—Aerated Bread.—The 
German Fair.—Club Chambers for the Married.—Needle-making.— 
Preserved Meats.—London Stout.—Palace Lights, Club Cards, and 
Bank Pens.—The Great Military Clothing Establishment at Pimlico. 
—Thoughts about London Beggars.—Wenham Lake Ice.—Candle 
Making.—Woman’s Work.—The Turkish Bath.—The Nervous System 
of the Metropolis.—Who is Mr. Reuter ?—Our Modern Mercury.— 
The Sewing Machine.—The Times’ Advertising Sheet.—Old Things by 
New Names.—A Suburban Fair.—A Fortnight in North Wales.—The 
Aristocratic Rooks.—The Englishman Abroad.—A Gossip about the 
Lakes.—Sensations of a Summer Night and Morning.—Physical 
Antipathies.—The Philosophy of Babydom.—Brain Difficulties.— 
Human Hair. 
“ These papers are characterized by the same breadth of view, the same felicity 
of language, the same acuteness of thought, which distinguished the ‘ Curiosities of 
Civilization.* So long as Dr. Wynter continues to write papers similar to those in the 
volume before us, and in ‘ Curiosities of Civilization,* so long will the republication of 
those papers be welcomed by the public.**— Standard. 
