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Publisher's Note: These stories are brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community -- that of the streets of London's East End in the 1980s. Arthur Morrison prefaced his book with a list of the common misconceptions about the East End of his day, all of which ignored the human element. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, unlike the denizens of the Jago, which he was later to describe so vividly in A Child of the Jago, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He chronicled their adventures and misadventures, their wooings and their funerals, with sympathy, humor and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be found in the 'mean streets', from Lizerunt's disastrous marriage to Scuddy Lond's plausible but imperfect conversion and 'Squire' Napper's quickly dispersed fortune.