The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James Dabney McCabe (aka Edward Winslow Martin)

Published: Philadelphia, Chicago, Jones Brothers & Co., 1868

Besides history, some other topics are society, the morgue, the Tombs, buildings, cemeteries, patterers, swindlers, lost children, baby farming, dens of midnight, the harbor, soldier minstrels, thiefs, poor girls, street boys, assignation houses

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I. THE CITY OF NEW YORK
CHAPTER II. THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
CHAPTER III. THE CITY GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER IV. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE
CHAPTER V. SOCIETY
CHAPTER VI. THE TOMBS
CHAPTER VII. REFORMATORY ESTABLISHMENTS
CHAPTER VIII. LINES OF TRAVEL
CHAPTER IX. STREET MUSICIANS
CHAPTER X. THE PRESS
CHAPTER XI. WALL STREET
CHAPTER XII. BUSINESS IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XIII. FASHIONABLE SHOPPING
CHAPTER XIV. IMPOSTORS
CHAPTER XV. SUNDAY IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XVI. THE DETECTIVES
CHAPTER XVII. FIVE POINTS
CHAPTER XVIII. HOTEL LIFE
CHAPTER XIX. RESTAURANTS
CHAPTER XX. BOARDING HOUSES
CHAPTER XXI. TRINITY PARISH
CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLIDAYS IN THE CITY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CENTRAL PARK
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CHAPTER XXV. THE POOR OF NEW YORK
CHAPTER XXVI. POOR GIRLS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE STREET BOYS
CHAPTER XXVIII. BEGGARS
CHAPTER XXIX. EMIGRANTS
CHAPTER XXX. THE BUMMERS
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SOCIAL EVIL
CHAPTER XXXII. ASSIGNATION HOUSES
CHAPTER XXXIII. STREET-WALKERS
CHAPTER XXXIV. CONCERT SALOONS
CHAPTER XXXV. DANCE-HOUSES
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE WICKEDEST MAN IN NEW YORK CHAPTER XXXVII. CHEAP LODGING HOUSES
CHAPTER XXXVIII. BLACK-MAILING
CHAPTER XXXIX. CHATHAM STREET
CHAPTER XL. THIEVES
CHAPTER XLI. PICKPOCKETS
CHAPTER XLII. DRUNKENNESS
CHAPTER XLIII. GAMBLING HOUSES CHAPTER XLIV. KIT BURNS'S
CHAPTER XLV. SAILORS' BOARDING HOUSES
CHAPTER XLVI. THE CHURCHES AND THE CLERGY
CHAPTER XLVII. CEMETERIES
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE BAR
CHAPTER XLIX. THE METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER L. HARRY HILL'S
CHAPTER LI. THE WICKEDEST WOMAN IN NEW YORK CHAPTER LII. BABY FARMING
CHAPTER LIII. THE FIRST DIVISION, NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD
CHAPTER LIV. PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
CHAPTER LV. FORTUNE TELLERS AND CLAIRVOYANTS
CHAPTER LVI. THE HARBOR
CHAPTER LVII. QUACK DOCTORS
CHAPTER LVIII. THE RACES
CHAPTER LIX. MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
CHAPTER LX. PERSONALS
CHAPTER LXI. SOLDIER MINSTRELS
CHAPTER LXII. THE ABATTOIRS
CHAPTER LXIII. THE MORGUE
CHAPTER LXIV. THE OLDEST MAN IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER LXV. DIVORCE LAWYERS
CHAPTER LXVI. PAWNBROKERS
CHAPTER LXVII. THE MARKETS
CHAPTER LXVIII. PUBLIC BUILDINGS
CHAPTER LXIX. THE POST-OFFICE
CHAPTER LXX. THE PATTERERS
CHAPTER LXXI. LOTTERIES
CHAPTER LXXII. GIFT ENTERPRISES
CHAPTER LXXIII. SITUATION AGENCIES
CHAPTER LXXIV. THE PATENT SAFE GAME
CHAPTER LXXV. LOST IN THE GREAT CITY
CHAPTER LXXVI. CONCLUSION