16 MARCH 1889, Page 23

The Workless, the Thriftless, and the Worthless. By Francis Peek.

(Isbister.)—Mr. Peek here republishes two articles which appeared in the Contemporary Review, and attracted at the time much atten-

tion from those who had studied the difficult problem of the "unemployed." A charitable committee in every parish to do in detail, and with the best means of information, the excellent work in which the much-maligned Charity Organisation Society has shown the way, is one great remedy. Mendicant colonies, as established in Holland and Germany, are another means of combating this gigantic evil.