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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

... 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 ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... Cassells. Souvenirs of some Continents, by Archibald Forbes. 3s. Od. Macmillans. The Aged Poor in England and Wales, by Charles Booth. 8s. 6d. Maomillans. Stephen Archer, by George Macdonald. 2s. 6d. Sampson Low andCo. ...

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 ...

FASHIONABLE WEDDING AT CHILDWALL

... TO BRIDEGROOM. 3Mr and Mrs Harold Aslby, silver spoon M r and rs Charles Booth, four sgiver toast Mr and Mrs Alfred Booth, silver teacaddy Mfiss H3 E Booth, table Mr and Mrs Charles Booth, ju f two silver bon- .bon dishes Colonel and Mhrs Belcher, two ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... marriage of Mr. Godfrey Webster, 20th Regiment, and Mliss Amy Booth, youngest daughter of Mr WV. Boothl, and niece of sir Charles Booth, Bart., will take place on Wednesday, the 24th July, at DatchCt, near W~indsor.I Thomas Dowse, auctioneer, has returned ...

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 ...

SHOW AT LEICESTER OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... for similar horses under four years of age. Tho first in this class, £50, est gained by Brigadier, the psoperty of Sir Charles Booth, of Killerby Hall, Catterick, Yorkshire ; and the secnd, sP15, by Cay Lad, ownled by Mr. Drage, of Moulton Lrode, Noi ...

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 ...