... own, Mr Charles Booth, gathered in the East End London, undoubtedly the most wretched area in Great Britain. Yet he gives these statistics in a heightened and often (of course unintentionally) misleading form. Thus, those whom Mr Charles Booth classifies ...

... observing “ St. Monday.” he mentioned that in 1589, which year of good . there were 630 inmates of Stepney Work. bouse, Mr Charles Booth ascertained that of the total umber, 208 had become inmates through old age, 169 sickness. and 80 through drink. He argued ...

... Switzerland, or on the moors, but in the nf the mass of the population who rarely get beyond the range of bricks and mortar Mr Charles Booth and others have prosecuted inqniries, and they testify that is is well nigh impossible to find a third, and impossible ...

... millions ayear to the taxpayer, involves too gigantic financial operation te be entertained. But Mr Chamberisin and Mr Charles Booth (no connection of The General's”) have schemes which contemplate eontributions from the during the greater part of their ...

... the The, and they wjre ' the Pope, the Devil, and The O'Gorman Mahon. No work «f recent years va'uable that which Mr Charles Booth (no connection of the Geueral'') is prosecuting into the poverty of London. The results are, the whole, hopeful. No chapter ...

... Crete shall have self-goverment or annexation to a bank rupt state on the mainland ! The monumental work upon which Mr Charles Booth Lo Individuality connection of ** The has been engaged tor many years is this week un it vleted by the publication of the ...

... destitution, like the East End of London, leave no doubt that the incapable as well the criminal olass are disappearing. Mr Charles Booth, in his book, giving the results of a house-to-house visitation of the very poorest district of East London, with a population ...

... on If.. . Übonr od Lif « >e People, from which 1 ask your permi.siou to give one or two extract. It is edited by Mr Charle. Booth, and contain, the results of a very careful and thorough inquiry into the condition of the people of Eut London. Under ...

... them with the constant of young men who go up to try their fortune, the inference is that most of the latter do well. Mr Charles booth's new volume contains a very interesting chapter on this provincial invasion of the great city. He finds that as a rule ...

... in the alacrity and delight with which girls drop their writing or sums to take cookery lessons, which, we find from Mr Charles Booth's book, are as popular in the ragged schools of East London they are in the most select classes of the North. to our engagement ...

... Inrid tints to his picture of human misery. I spoke more particularly ofthemannerinwhich he had handled the returns in Mr Charles Booth's really valuable book, Labour and Life in East London, which, so fir from warranting a gloomy view of the case, is ...