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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 ITEMS

... Simpkin, MarEhall, ?? wil shortly publish a work by Mr. John MI,lfe entitled, The Case for Universal Old Age Pensions. Mr. Charles Booth, author of Life and Labour of the People in London, is writing an intro- duction to the book Mr. Wifliai La Queux has ...

Literature

... the bands of all who intend to exhibib at forthcomilg local shows, and to secretaries it will prove of equal use. Mr. Charles Booth's pamphlet on Pauperisa, a picture; and Endowment of Old Age. an argument, is an elaboration of the papar he read before ...

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 ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... ought to be in the hands of every photographer. Pnsep7riem, a pictnre ;and the Endowmmnet of' Old A4 7e, an argument. By Charles Booth (London: Macmillan and Co. .-This book is peculiar for the way in which the author has %rought out his arguments. He gives ...

Literature

... venture will doubtless find an appreciative public. of In Life and Labour of the People of London (Macmillans) IMr. Charles Booth has undertaken a On task which should prove invaluable to eludonts of the °h sovial question of the moment. The first two ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... Short History of the English People, by J. B. Green (Macmillan and Co.) Part XVIII. 4Life and Labour of the People, by Charles Booth. Vol. IV. (Macmillan and Co.) Pp. 354. Depression in Trade, by CharlesW. Smith (Sampson Loaw, Marston, and Co.) Pp. 74 ...

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 ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... iRRIYILS. s It is in uitraenture as in Einsoe--mnch Paper and | much Poverty may coexist A fresh' departure is made by Mr. Charles Booth in | the two newv volumes which have just been published'L on Life and Labour of the People in London.' The first four ...

NEW BOOKS

... Hearts, and other stories, by A Arthur Barrell (Eliott Stock). Pp. 188. . I C Life and Labour of the People, Vol. 1, by Charles Booth (Mwamillan and Co.) Pp. 318. v The Jesuits in Poland, Oxford Prose Essay, by A. F. Pollird (Methuen and Co.). Pp. 98. ...

NEW BOOKS

... Royal Commission on the Aged Poor is eminently unsatisfactory, and not even the valuable researches and records by Mr. Charles Booth deal fully with the mass of facts which. demand attention in the consideration of the condition and future of the aged ...

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 ...