It is with deep regret that we record the death
of Mr. Charles Booth,, known to the public as a leading philanthropist and student of industrial life, especially on the statistical aide, and to the com- mercial world as a successful man of business. But above all these things Mr. Charles Booth was a. great patriot. To those who knew
him intimately he stood always as the good citizen. man ever combined more happily human sympathy, insight, and under, standing with an equably balanced intelligence and a cool, head. He dared to look upon life at the closest possible quarters and in its most sordid aspects without allowing his judgment to be in the least deflected. He was a sane. Savonarola. The, war has amply justified Dlr. Charles Booth in the attitude which he adopted in his great book on .London in regard to what we may term East End problems. Ho told us in effect that though there was much that was wrong and much that ought to be put right, there was no cause for despair. The people in our great towns were not getting poorer, more degraded, or more unfit, but -on the whole were improving physically and morally. Can any one who - reads the nation's record during the last two -and a half years doubt that he was right ?
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