The Poor in Great Cities: Their Problems and What Is Doing to Solve Them (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple
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The papers composing this book were contributed to Scrihner s Magazine during the years 1891-1893 by authors whose A vork embodied personal experience and close and sympathetic study, and by artists whose drawings were made among the life they represent. They form perhaps the most important group of essays thus far printed upon one of the most vital and (what is by no means the same thing) one of the most widely discussed subjects of the time. It is, indeed, the central subject of all social questions ;for all of these, under whatever name, deal with the means of improving the conditions of life and with the relief of suffering as the necessary forerunners of all other reforms; and whatever may be the difficulties of those conditions, or the amount of that suffering in rural communities or among special classes away from towns, it is only in the centres of population that they present their great general problems to the observation of all people alike, and comjjel an answer to the question of their remedy. A ny series of joapers on the Poor in Great Cities will have had many predecessors has indeed in England a whole literature behind it, of A vhose masterpieces some show their practical results today in different individual directions, and some have become, so to speak, the literary classics of their subject.
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