The first reprint of an innovative social novel of London in 1848, the year of European revolutions, by a radical exile First printed in 1850, The City of the Jugglers is a cautionary Victorian novel about futures trading in human souls following a financial crisis. Prior to this edition, only a handful of copies existed in U.S. library holdings. This volume is reproduced from the first edition in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.

Looks at Professor Risley's introduction of the Western-style circus to Japan in 1864 and his subsequent tours of the country with the Imperial Japanese Troupe of acrobats, an encounter that opened both cultures to one another.

Retells the legend of the little juggler's search for a special Christmas gift for the Christ Child and the Blessed Mother.

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