... MAGMiLUrS NEW BOOKS. Life of Octavia Hill as Told in her Letters. Edited by C, Edmond Maurice. Illustrated. Bvo. 16s. net. THE OUTLOOK.*- A word ooMs and unselfish career spent serelos WomanUy. Of parfltular Interest to all who are interested Ufes social ...

... that more than 60 years’ experience in England had proved the efficacy of employing women as housing managers, Trained the Octavia Hill system, which had its basis sympathetic and friendly relationship between tenant and manager. Miss M’Cullough said that ...

... employment at an adequate salary are excellent there, or in Ulster. Training for the dinloma is essential. The life of Octavia Hill, ~y L. Moberly Bell, gives an inspiring account of a pioneer in the profession.—Yours, &c., Annie G. Gibbon ...

... Women Housing Managers’ dinner to mark the centenary of the birth of Octavia Hill. Lord Balfour of Burghley, president at the dinner, gave two silent toasts —the King and Octavia Hill—and then proposed the health of the guests, to which the Earl of Athlone ...

... Jupoa spent the week-end with the ,| Duchess of Kent at Coppins, Tver Books. p. in( . ns Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Octavia Hill Centenary Claridpe’s. London, on X ,‘ r . of the Society of Women to c e Managers. Lord Balfour of l ,'i : will preside ...

... tactful, educated women, to whom the profession of home-making had made a special appeal. The work of that pioneer, Miss Octavia Hill, and of her successors, has achieved even the transformation of slumdwellers into self-respecting communities. This indeed ...

... H. R. Rossell Wakefield has been Mayor of Maxylebone, London, and was Mr. Long's Committee. Mrs. Sidney Webb and Miss Octavia Hill been prominently associated with Poor-law work, and Mm. Bosanquctis the wife the Professor Moral Philosophy St. Andrew’a ...

... following work* Keneral literature were ordered—Benn (E. F.)» Art Overland Trek from India;*’ Mall (H. F.), Ibo World Soul:” Hill (Octavia), Life Told H**r letters Peel (Hooourable G.)» ** The ' Reformer*Smith (Alex.), “A Summer in Sky stock (Ralph), Confemions ...

... in each group of houses gives~ access to the rear. The women housing managers, trained in England for two years at the Octavia Hill college, to whom the tenants tell their troubles and from whom they seek advice, have tales of coals being dumped in the ...

... this labour, and. as consequence, lias issued what is practically new work, nearly double the size the original. The “Life Octavia Hill, Told in Her Letters,” which Messrs. Macmillan ft Co. are imblishing, ha* been edited by her brother in iaw’, Mr. C. Edmund ...

... St. Marylebone. and chairman of the Central Unemployed Bodv for Ixmdon; Mr*. Bosonooel, LL.I).; Mr*. Sidney Webb, Mia* Octavia Hill, and Francis (handler, J.P., chairman to the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, and ex-chairman Chorlton Board ...

... style house Belfast, like the old style boose elsewhere, left much to bo desired; it larked the two essentials which Miss Octavia Hill contended should in every dwelling—space and beauty. But the newer Belfast housing—in the Cliftonville, and Ormiston d ...