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HORACE BENCHER'S NOTE-BOOK

... was called into the study, and to his horror the two policemen stepped forward, the sergeant saying, I have a warrant, Charles Booth, to arrest you on the charge of stealing four thousand pounds. It's a cruel lie, the young man declared; and, looking ...

PASSION IN LIFE AND IN MODERN SCOTCH FICTION

... guise of humanity, it would be regarded very much as a report on some social sore' by in investigator of the type of Mr Charles Booth. An attempt would perhaps he made to get some public action! taken upon it. A demand vouel be raised for speciil legislation; ...

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 ...

CHURCH CONGRESS

... criticismns tbs various Schemes of old- £3 Id a-ge pensions submitted to the pubjic, inclined 5. in favour of that of Mr. Charles Booth. He Pr, as met the objection that ~t wvould cost, £17,000,000 1,5 ~eannually by the remark that a nation ita m~whose income ...

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 ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... makers, anid Charles Booth devotes himself to Baker's and confectioners. The next classifica- tion is somewhat vagne, being dealers aind clerks, concerning both shopkeepers and general dealers, merchants, and clerks (all dealt with by Charles Booth), and costers ...

THE JANUARY MAGAZINES

... subject of old-age pensions- is discussed at considerable length by Mr C. S. Loch in reply mainly to a recent article by MIr Charles Booth. Mr C. F. Bastable contributes a paper on The Distribution of Revenue be- twvecn the Central Governmen t and Local Authorities ...

LITERATURE

... Metcalfe. With Introduction by GCharles Booth. (London. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Limited.)-In his introductory words Mr Charles Booth reminds us that it -is twenty years and a - half since Canon Blackley started the pension movement by his article on National ...

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 ...