A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume II: 1785-1858The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how