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 How to Deal with the Unemployed.

By MARY HIGGS, Author of "Five Days and Nights as a Tramp."

Demy 8vo, cloth, 2s.

This book by the author of an article on "Vagrancy in the Nineteenth Century" has elicited many views as a contribution of value towards the solution of social problems.

The Spectator writes:—"A very thoughtful, discriminating, and vigorously written book. Mrs. Higgs knows her subject, and knows her own mind about it."

The Morning Leader says:—"Mrs. Mary Higgs has provided a useful elementary handbook on the subject of the unemployed. The whole book is informed with a generous enthusiasm."

The Daily News, in an article on it entitled "Draining the Abyss," says:—

"Mrs. Higgs is able to give a detailed diagnosis, and suggestions for remedy, She can support her contention with facts and figures, and the evidence of experiment in other countries, and her whole appeal is charged with passionate emphasis, great longing for some rational reform and progress out of a squalid system which is effecting such ruin among men's lives,"

The Scotsman calls it a thoughtful and well-considered study of a pressing problem in economics."

To-Day mentions it as "a genuine effort to solve the great problem of the neem se by scientific methods," and says "it deserves universal study and attention.

The Glasgow Herald says:—" Mrs, Higgs tackles her difficult subject with an admirable combination of knowledge of the painful facts and enthusiasm for what she believes to be an attainable ideal,"

The Oxford Chronicle calls it an excellent volume, and says that the fact that the authoress is able to speak from close personal observation lends a special value to her deductions."

The Sheffield Independent alludes to It as "a sincere and admirable expression of the new spirit in which this problem of the floating unemployed is being approached."

'he Liverpool Courter says:—" This little book may be read with profit by all concerned in the betterment of the workless poor and the moral brightening of their environment."

ARNOLD WHITE, in an article on it in The Manchester Dispatch, says " it has the distinction of serious purpose" and contains "more than a mere industrious compilation of the labours of others." He sums up:—"There is much good sense and sound knowledge in these pages, and they are written in the right spirit."

The Newcastle Chronicle calls it "a thoughtful little treatise on a subject of enormous importance."

The Railway Review says:—" While the problem is discussed in a sober, responsible way, it is not merely handled in a dry-as-dust fashion, or in the detached manner usual in scientific and economic treatises; it palpitates with strong human feeling, and appeals to the heart and imagination as well as to the head. Wecan heartily recommend it to our readers."

The Labour Leader says:—"The writer of this volume has earned a claim to be heard on this question by years of serious study of the problem. Every earnest contribution towards such a difficult and gigantic task is deserving of respectful consideration."

The Christian Endeavour Times calls it "An extremely interesting and suggestive little book."