... which house the others. In the last yea his life Wallis lived in filth and nef> he was taken, crazy with persecution m to a workhouse, where he died at eighty-sev A visitor to Madron Institution foun among fourteen other old men. The uncons charm of this ...

... have invented two extra refinements of torture an opening scene in which Oliver's mother is seen struggling towards the workhouse in the last agonies of travail, and a climax in which Oliver is forced to scramble over the roof-tops and fix the rope that ...

... romantic novel, W ifh m 3 kut is romantic in a different way. Mr. Massie's scene is a workhouse and he knows what he is writing about. Superficially, his account of the workhouse, its inma+P5 smH it ...

... appreciate the modesty of thousands instead of millions; but he might have respected little Iceland's neutrality. A WORKHOUSE may not seem very cheerful fare for wartime reading. Mr. Chris Massie spent seven years in one, and makes it the background ...

... returns to her native village, bringing her child with her. She is now down and almost out and to rescue her mother from the workhouse she marries the local rich man and skinflint, Johnny Dunne. The story then skips several years and re-emerges in the present ...