... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... have been turned out by the intervention of the police and the action of the landlord. They have had, moreover, as Mr. Charles Booth's newly-published work shows, one of the poorest and therefore most apathetic districts in London to spread the propaganda ...

... lately obtained the doubttul advantage of Mr. Herbert Spencer's membership. He quotes figures that were first given in Mr. Charles Booth's first volume, though he ascribes them to M William Booth, probably through a confusion of names. Our comrade Quelch gave ...

... 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 ...