... niece, Helen Emma Social reformers will be glad to hear that Mr. Duff, for such charitable or benevolent instoutione, Charles Booth, the author of Life and Labour is , objects, or purposes as she shall select and deter- East London, is well on his ...

... an action was heard before Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., Judge, in which Joseph Higginbottom, of Ludworth, Mellor, sued Charles Booth and Robert Barnes, gamekeepers, for damage sustained in the defendants having shot a dog belonging to him. Mr. Brown, solicitor ...

... 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 ...

... expensive acd probably unworkable scheme of the kind ; but he ignores the work of Canon Blackley, Dr Hunter, Sir W. Foster, Mr Charles Booth, Mr Moulton, and others, some of whom at least are strong Liberals. He tells us also that his party intend to deal with ...

... undertaken by various local authorities throughout the kingdom. What has been done for this lowest class of children? Mr. Charles Booth, in his Labour and Life of Ike People, gives a careful analysis of the children attending Elementary schools in London ...

... piece called A Warm Reception. The following took part in the same:—Mr. Selwyn, Edgar Mundy; John Dibble (a gardener), Charles Booth ; Peter Bragg (a page boy), Charles Alger; Mrs. Tartlet la cook), Annie Cummings; Emily Tidy (a housemaid), Alice Amos ...

... evidenoe before the Parliamentary Committee appointed to investigate the sweating system, is now helping her cousin, Mr. Charles Booth, in compiling an important series of books on the labour question. Mr. Booth is a merchant and shipowner ; he is also a ...

... it. The minority report is signed by Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. C. T. Ritchie, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Mr. W. A. Hunter, and Mr. Charles Booth. The bond of union between these gentlemen may perhaps be found in the opening sentence of the report they agree in signing ...

... 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 ...

... committee of organized labour was a body c 3mposed of district committees appointed at conferences which have been held by Mr. Charles Booth in seven of the chief industrial centres of Great Britain. These conferences bad approved the principle that every aged ...