30 SEPTEMBER 1911, page 17

The Prevention Of Destitution.*

THE term "destitution " hUs had a curious history. In the long-protracted controversy which followed the passing of the Poor Law Act of 1834 the word seems to have displaced the......

Books.

MONTAIGNE.* " Cut icy un livre de bonne fay, lecteur"—ench are the first words of Montaigne's Preface to his Essays, and they exactly hit the mark. No one ever wrote about......