... World's End next Sunday. They jumped at the suggestion, we believe, and we have little doubt they will duly appear. Mr. Charles Booth (not the General! has pretty well disposed of one of the enemy's favourite superstitions. Dec. 26, 492. He concludes ...

... Revo- Iteion. The next, one of the importants I wish they would have called them specials, it sounds nicer—was Mr. Charles Booth, wlio said he tra4 a Fellow of the Statistical Society. The chairman, asking question 306, p 25 : Can you give the Committee ...

... It is also stated that several other local bodies in Essex are considering whether they shall do likewise. According to Charles Booth London contains 172,50 z one-roomed tenements ; 55 766 families of two persons, 29,005 of three, 16,111 of four, 7,409 ...

... PEOPLE'S PENSIONS. Mr. Charles Booth, who has been at great pains to tabulate facts and figures of some importance and interest in connection with the condition of the working people of London, is responsible for a suggestion which has in some quarters ...

... *hat bearing they have upon the working, by individuals for self-gain, of our economical laws. The nest whams after Mr. Charles Booth was the great genius, the man who wants to ameliorate the condition of the working classes by turning all foreigners out ...

... three culprits were severely reprimander and two of the girls ordered to pay 23. each towards the costs of the case. Mr. Charles Booth has issued the ninth volume of his Life and Labour of the People in L,ndon, and the Standard has had a leading article ...

... history of the world. H. W. LEE. 6Ellli Another statistical study of the condition of the poor has been published by Mr. Charles Booth. He finds that in the Tower Hamlets, 35 per cent. of the population may fairly be described as poor, while 22 per cent ...

... despite the fact that we have in recent years greatly reduced the standard of physical qualification. Even had not Mr. Charles Booth statistically assured us that about a third of the people of London are either in at ject poverty, cr in imminent danger ...

... exhaustive inquiries into the cause of social evils, were of this opinion also. The investigations of the Salvation Army, Mr. Charles Booth, Miss Frances Willard, Dr. G. M. Wilson and others showed conclusively that unemployment, pauperism, prostitution and insanity ...

... Short, tall, and medium sized ; plump, podgey, and cadaverous; and the first three shades of poverty described by Mr. Charles Booth. What pleasure there can be in life for some of those who composed the audience on this particular occasion I cannot understand ...

... which he has kept a careful account, his wages have averaged 18s. per week. This is by no means an exceptional case. Mr. Charles Booth estimates that 81 per cent. of London workers get leu than 30s. per week, while over 30 per cent get less than 21s. Mr ...

... in large quantities to Eng- June 27, 189 t. land I It is the story of Irish famines over again on a colossal scale. Mr. Charles Booth has no connection with the ' G eneral's ' Salvation shop over the way, and the second volume of his Life and Labour ...