6 JANUARY 1906, page 18

The Home Life . Of The Poor. T Wo Striking Collections Of

essays on the subject of the poor lie before us,—" The Canker at the Heart," by L. Cope Cornrow]. (Richards, 3s. 6d. net), and "The Queen's Poor," by M. Loane (Edward Arnold,......

The Versatile Guest.

1141 HE past two or three weeks must have brought home to many an otherwise well-satisfied person a sense of his own limitations. At no season so strongly as at Christmas and......