... forgotten. The Niucter nili Ceutury gives a symposium of opinions on Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor. Sliss Octavia Hill, than whom no one has a better right to speak on this important ques- tion, writes, thai it seems dreadful to think that ...

... friends had spoken very highly of the efforts of Miss Octavia Hill. He doubted very much, however, whether that lady would have aporoved of the motion. Mr. BALFOl'Rdidnot hint or suggest that Miss Hill would approve of the motion. On the contrary, he was ...

... Trained Workers for the Poor. are dealt with in the ! Nineteenth Century by Mr. W. S. Lilly, Profe?sor I Mahaffy, and Miss Octavia Hill respectively. Pro- fessor Mahany's views are of a decidedly doleful character, expressed with his habitual force. The ...

... for Places of Historic Interest, ?? was held at 1, Great College-street. Lord Balcarres, M.P., Sir Robert Hunter, Miss Octavia Hill, ani others were present. The offer of a memorial tablet to be affixed to Turner's House in Chelsea was ace pied. A vote ...

... tins cause, and whose names were so familiar. Mr. Torrens, >t Ri. hard Cross. Sir Sydney Waterlow, Mr. Broadhurst, '.I.ss Octavia Hill, and Mr. Shaw Lefevre would welcome i ;•>.• Ti.iwerful assistance of the noble marquis who bad so cordially joined them ...

... the Victoria Hall deserves more thau _ passing notice. Its writer is one of that devoted baud of ladies who, with Miss Octavia Hill a. their head, have done so much to redeem philan- thropy from the cliarge of being unpractical, and have converted some ...

... really reciuire it, because we should know the cases in which it ought to be refused altogether. It is this work which Miss Octavia Hill has j taken up in the district of St. Mary's, Bryanston- r square. At Elberfeld ministers of religious deno- : minations ...

... diocese could be complete without such a thorough organisation as was represented by the Deaconesses' Institution. Miss Octavia Hill resented this view, and asserted that a woman who had experience of a home was more suited to visit poor people than one ...

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... Church should enlist and encourage workers in the cause. The best work hitherto done has undoubtedly been done by Mis 3 Octavia Hill and her band of trained ladies, and it is a real work of noble philanthropy, full of happy promise for the future. 3. The ...

... opinion of those best qualified to judge, many of the well-meaning efforts to help the poor do much more harm than good. Miss Octavia Hill told the Lords' Com- mittee that the Mansion House Relief Fund had the worst possible effect ; that by attracting ...

... Dwellings of the Poor, the Nineteenth Century for December has four very interesting and timely articles. The first is by Miss Octavia Hill, and its object is to show what improvements are prac- ticable under existing circumstances. Those whe have noted tho chief ...