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, 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 



