V. SOCIAL DISEASES AND WORSE REMEDIES
LETTERS TO THE "TIMES" ON MR. BOOTH'S SCHEME.
WITH A PREFACE AND INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
(1891)
PREFACE
The letters which are here collected together were published in the "Times" in the course of the months of December, 1890, and January, 1891.
The circumstances which led me to write the first letter are sufficiently set forth in its opening sentences; and the materials on which I based my criticisms of Mr. Booth's scheme, in this and in the second letter, were wholly derived from Mr. Booth's book. I had some reason to know, however, that when anybody allows his sense of duty so far to prevail over his sense of the blessedness of peace as to write a letter to the "Times," on any subject of public interest, his reflections, before he has done with the business, will be very like