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MR. CHARLES BOOTH'S EIGHTH VOLUME*

... MR. CHARLES BOOTH'S EIGHTH VOLUME. (By ARTHUR MORRISON.) THE end of the labours of Mr. Charles Booth and his assistants is well in sight. The eighth volume of his Life and Labour of the People of London lies before me, and the ninth and last will be ...

LITERARY NOTES, NEWS, AND ECHOES

... many of his plots, and M11assinger, Shirley, and ,Beaumont and Fletcher were also largely indebted to it. . * * * * * Mr. Charles Booth, the author of Life and Labour in East London, is well on his way with the second volume of his Survey of Industrial ...

THE BELL OF ST. PAUL'S.*

... has lately received two compliments of somewhat differing weight and value. The one was an appreciative mention by Air. Charles Booth (the scientist and statistician of East-end life, as Mr. Besant is its chronicler), the other, a pompous article in the ...

REVIEWS

... prevent), but upon the more frequent offer of tlehouse H-lis readers must weigh this view against that arrived at by * r Charles Booth in the result of the most practical and unbiassed iIvestigatiotS So far as relates to the able-bodied paupers, the figures ...

REVIEWS

... reviews. Their connecting link divells in the common spirit which animates them, that of the modest and sound school of Mr. Charles Booth. The idea of Mr. Bosanquet is that practical observation of social facts and human nature should precede the construction ...

REVIEWS

... tile comfort of the people, and especially of the old, in the country dis- t I The Aged Poor in England and W\ales. By Charles Booth. (Macnillan and Co. 1894.) BECHSTEIN PIANOS.-CHAS. STILES and CO. offer these magnificent Pianos on the THREE YEARS SYSrEM ...

LIFE AND LABOUR IN EAST LONDON.*

... wear at the attendant ceremony a new vestment woven in one piece. Life and Labour, Vol. I. East Lond1on. Edited by Charles Booth. L (Williams and Norgate.) Italy, France, and other European countries were vainly searched for a weaver capable of executing ...

REVIEWS

... and his book is well worth reading. We are much inclined to think that the creation of a central council of men like Mr. Charles Booth to deal with these questions and to centralize experience and wisdom would be a useful first step. If these things are ...

MR. CHARLES BOOTH'S NINTH VOLUME

... If there is one lesson more apparent than others in these pages * Life and Labour of the People: in London. Edited by Charles Booth, Volume IX. (London: Macmillan and Co.) it is that of the folly of attempting generalization in any such intri- cate matter ...

THE REVIEWS FOR JULY

... a few more Path in tribes in Brit sh India. Mr. S. H. Jeyes's article is intended to show that some words used by Mr. Charles Booth in the first volume of his 1 Labour and Life of the People,` belittling foreign immigration, are' now out of date -Mr ...

A CITY VERY MUCH LIKE HELL

... unconquered, ungoverned, unclothed, unfed. LONDON POVERTY SUMMARIZED. Here are the proportions of London poverty as Mr. Charles Booth gives them in his final summary:- A. Lowest class, vicious, semi-criminal 37,610 or .9 per cent. In poverty, B. Very poor ...

THE REVIEWS FOR AUGUST

... thed t ndons of t! a muscles which bend or liert the fin:.ers at their two icints. Mfiss C0ementina M31ac1 revietvs e-. Charles Booth s ' Lab)oor and Life in London.t' Mr. \V. Dout-las Mackenzie discusses TPhe Eth;ics of Gambling, and cannot conceivo ...