V. 



SOCIAL DISEASES AND WOESE 

 REMEDIES. 



LETTERS TO THE " TIMES " ON MR. BOOTH'S SCHEME. 

 WITH A PREFACE AND INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 



[1891.] 



PEEFACE. 



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 on 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, how- 

 ever, 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, be- 

 fore he has done with the business, will be very like 

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