Few names are more familiar to readers of the Spectator,
than that of the late Sir C. S. Loch, whose magnificent work for the nation through the Charity Organization Society has often been commended in these pages. Loch did not join the society till five years after its foundation, but from 1875, when he became its secretary, to 1914, when he retired, he was the life and soul of the C.O.S. Some of his old colleagues and friends have done well in collecting a number of the admirable addresses that he used to give on charity and its problems, on methods of social work, and on the aims of the society which he served. There is greater need than ever for the district committees of social workers to co- ordinate the many rival and overlapping charities, now that "public assistance" has become more and more lavish and wasteful, threatening, as for example in Poplar, to pauperize whole communities. We must be content to direct attention to this excellent little book.
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