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... graduates in Convocation, on the ground that the alternative examination implies a lowering of the present standard. Mr Charles Booth, the author of Life and Labour in East London, is well on his way to the second volume of his survey of industrial London ...

BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

... yet abundant need for the ?? of the old time :y p±aritan, and that in view of the results of the re- as searches of Mr. Charles Booth and his co-woikers lit is not needful that the reat truth ther is nnlyI one political question, the condition of the Ie ...

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 ...

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... its dishonourable stigma of pauperism alike on aged and yonng, infirm and able-bodied, deserving and un. deserving. Mr. Charles Booth, is his recently-pub. lished work, The Aced Poorin England and wales, states that as regards entering the workhouse ...

NEW BOOKS

... de thus accumulated, and ?? out of +the Re- D ports of the Royal Comimissiou and the remark- 8.i ed able works of Mr. Charles Booth, Mr. Edward Yh Bowmaker has coumpiled a handy little volutmoe ml entitled ''The Housingof the WorkingClasses, 5 e and ...

ASHBY AGRICULTURIAL-HOW

... Lord Viscount Curzon, Mr. E. B. Farnham. M.P., .Mr. E. M. Mundy, M.P., Mr. C. R. Colvile, M.P., HIr. s C. J. Allsopp, Mr. Charles Booth, Mr. H. Bradley, Mr. H. Brown, hr. N1. 13urt, Mr. ll. M. Cartwright, Mr. R. t Chieslyn, OIr. Choyce, OIr. R. Choyce, Mr ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... them. DISGRACEFUL IIoAx.-In our last issue an adver- tisement was inserted stating that the house, grounds, and park of Charles Booth, Esq., near Rye. house, would be open to the public on Whit-Sunday and Monday, and every following Monday till the end ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... George Ferguson. 2nd edition. 5s. net. The Cae for Universal Old- age Pensions. By John Mtetcalfe; with introduction by Charles Booth. Simpkin. Marshall and Co. The Darlington Half-Holiday Guide. Part I. Dar- linyton: W. Dresser and Sons. Water Supply and ...

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

... race, climate, habit, upon the working power of various men. In a short paper, entitled Poor Laaw Statistics, Mr. Charles Booth admits error in some of his figures relating to London pauperism; also in his statement that the amount of outdoor relief ...

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 ...

Literature

... British Alisanaok and Companion furl893, 2s. 6d, ; Stationers' Company, Life and Labour of the Poor of London, edited by Charles Booth ; vol. i, ; 38 6d.,; .Macmillani Coursing and Falconry, by Hardirg Cox and the I-omn Gvrard Lasesiles; The Badminton Library ...

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

... Chtaker, Panes CR17MPSAU:,L. Whittaker, Lily Cmmr~mme ci. Cafes, Jane Alice Delalhnnt, Daisy Picekstone, Nellie Delabunt, Charles Booth, btinnie Names published Up to Friday last, 124,824, givttQ above, 33; total up to present, 124,857. Letters and answers ...