Recollections of Workhouse Visiting and Management. By Louisa Twining. (C.
Kegan Paul and Co.)—Miss Twining contributed an article on this subject to the New Quarterly Magazine last year, and this she new reprints, with additions and appendices. The volume contains, she tells us, the results of the experiences and observations of twenty-five years. That it is interesting need hardly be said. There will be as little doubt about its value. The practical knowledge acquired by personal action in these matters during so long a time is an acquisition which it would not be easy to appreciate at its true value. One plain lesson it has for all, and that is the encouragement it gives to persevering effort against official inaction or hostility. At first, both Guardians and the Poor-law Board were decidedly adverse. Everything was managed for the best. Why did these meddling persons wish to interfere P Bat these meddling persons were not dis- couraged. They went on "pegging away," and it is no exaggeration to say that their efforts have worked a great change in the adminis- tration of the indoor relief of the Poor-law.
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