... victory. We wish the men success. Wages of the miners are, on the average, 255. per week, just sufficient to be above Mr. Charles Booth's poverty line. A coal famine will, no doubt, bring misery upon many innocents, but a rude shock is necessary from time ...

... evils attending distribution, Mr. Dell in the second article deals with the cause of poverty. He first of all cites Mr. Charles Booth's work, Life and Labour in London, as showing that only 18 per cent. a! povery is due to the people's own fault, 82 ...

... average, not 26 but 3 church -goers to every too of its inhabitants, but even that is a disgracefully small per centage. Mr. Charles Boothe (no relation, we believe, to the so-called General) observes : Comparatively few of the masses of the people go to ...

... calculations are taken from the work of a gentleman who, though bearing his name, has no connection with his methods, MR. CHARLES BOOTH'S Life and Labolir in Easi London, the only attempt yet made to give a socially classified census of the inhabitants of ...

... pension proposal in the coming session. The Daily Chronicle seemed rather frightened at the cost, so it entirely ignored Mr. Charles Booth's broad scheme, and fastened upon Mr Lionel Holland's scheme of subsidising the Friendly Societies, who, by the way, say ...

... even qiestion that the State could bear the necessary additional burden if the welfare of the community demanded ir. Mr. Charles Booth's scheme is not so costly as It appears to be at first sight. Anyhow it is one which, if carried, would make the reputation ...

... a week for distribution. The districts over which this mission extends, rank, according to the tables and maps in Mr. Charles Booth's Labour and Lift of the Peotts, ...

... Hird's Cry of the Children; many details in the Report on Me Sweating System; grounds for extimating their numbers in Mr. Charles Boothe's ninth volume of Life and Labour of the People, where he reckons that in London one-third of the inhabitants are close ...

... Between Southwark Bridge and Blackfriars•road, lies the most poverty stricken spot in the whole of London. A glance at Mr. Charles Booth's book on the Labour and lif e of the Peal* discloses the fact that the percentage of poverty in that district is 67'9 ...

... nothing but a fabric of unfact —the real slummer is the man whom we come face to face with in the lowest stages of Charles Booth's masterly analysis of East London poverty. For him the housing Act cannot do very much. Nothing but some sort of compulsory ...

... what an impartial outsider, who is at the same time a recognised authority on the subject, has to sty on the matter. Mr. Charles Booth—whom no one, I should think, will accuse of exaggeration—states in his collection of statistics, Life and Labour of the ...

... than in the youth of Dickens—are absolutely far greater because of the immense growth of the town ; and the reader of Mr. Charles Booth's admirable volumes on the Labour and Life of London—one of the finest modern works of statistics—may well be appalled ...