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The experiments of the different settlements will accordingly be modified by the problems of their neighborhoods, as will also their aims and methods. This may be shown by the following expressions from resident and non-resident workers of some of the important settlements.

Toynbce Hall, Whitechapel, London.

The settlement as a whole takes no attitude on religion or national politics. Most of the men are political radicals. The position of nearly all on eco- nomic and social questions is somewhat more conservative than one might expect. As to religious preferences, there have been among the residents churchmen, nonconformists, Roman Catholics, Jews and unsectarians. MR. R. A. WOODS, in English Social Movements.

Hull House, I gth Ward, Chicago.

Hull House is neither a university settlement nor a college settlement ; it calls itself a social settlement, and attempts to make social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity of society. It is an attempt to add the social function to democracy. Miss JANE ADDAMS, in the Forum, November 1892.

Chicago Commons, I7th Ward, Chicago.

The settlement is as little of an organization and as much of a personal relationship as it can be made. It seeks to unify and help all other organ- izations and people in the neighborhood that make for righteousness and brotherhood. It is not a church, but hopes to be a helper of all the churches. It is not a charity, but expects to aid in the organization and cooperation of all existing charities. It is not an exclusive social circle, but aspires to be a center of the best social life and interests of the people. It is not a school, but purposes to be a source and agency of educational effort and culture. It is non-political, yet has begun to be a rallying point and moral force for civic patriotism. It is non-sectarian, but avowedly Christian, and openly cooper- ative with the churches. PROFESSOR GRAHAM TAYLOR, circular.

University of Chicago Settlement, Stock Yards District, Chicago.

The settlement work is not the presentation of an ism or theory, but of

life. It is carried on on the principle that what men want primarily in the

struggle for life is life itself and not theories about life. Miss MARY

MCDOWELL.

University Settlement, New York.

Unlike the many Utopian dreams of the earlier communism, the scheme I have been proposing does not seek to isolate a group of families from contact