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    TWO BOOKS ON AUSTRALIA.* Dr. H. W. Dale,...

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    Life And Labour In Bast

    of the clothing trade and of cigar making ; street vendors and Jews congregate thickly in

    that quarter of the town . The parish of St . George — 's-in-the-East contains the most abject

    poverty — -- - fj , though Bethnal Green and Stepney V run it very hard in that respect .

    There are no less than 115 clubs of one sort or another in East London and Hackney ;

    of these 32 are political , 18 social , 33 philanthropic and religious , and 32 proprietary . They may be roughly divided into those which

    can be entered by a stranger and those that maintain a jealous privacy- The latter consist

    of the proprietary clubs , which , as a rule , bear a very bad reputation ; some are dramatic and

    others make dancing a chief attraction ; but gambling in some shape or other is the

    fouadation of them all . These clubs appear to be short-livedbut if they vanish from one street

    it is only to , spring up in the next ; a certain proportion m ^ A \~ T f ~^ V ^ ^ ^^* V «^ ^ A of ^ - ^ ^ tm them mr ^^ —| — — are W ^ ^^ extremel ^^ J » ^ f « ^^ ^^^ ^ r m y w disreputable H « . n _ r ^ ^ v Par — — ^ —¦ —*^ — - ^ ,

    being , it is said , a * combination of gambling hell with the lowest type of dancing saloon . '

    Of the political clubs 22 are Liberal or Radical , 6 «! Conservative - ^^^ r - ^^^ r b ^^ . WF W BF mmf J 3 Socialistic m mr ^ mr ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ W and ^^^^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ 1 ^^^^ Irish ^^^^^ ¦ ^ - ^ w ~~ ^ - ~^ ^ - ^ Home — — — ^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ . ^^^^^ ^'^^^™ , ^^^^^ " ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ,

    Rule . ' Judging by the clubs , there would seem to be no doubt of the political complexion

    of East London , and the weekly papers mostlytaken—Reynolds and the Dispatch—tell the

    same story . There is also a good deal of vague unorganised Socialism . East London

    has shared in the development of prudential thrift shown by the growth in recent years

    of the great Friendly Societies . One with another — — -- they / have 50 » 000 members in the

    district , of whom . 17 , 000 , belong to the Ancient Order ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ j ^ of ^^^ F ^^^ . Foresters ^^^^^ v ^^^^ ^ PW ^^^* W ^^ B ™^ ^•^ ^^^ m ~^^^ ; ^ B about ^^^^^ ^^ " ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ the ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ¦ ^ w same ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ - ^^ r ¦ ¦ number ^ - ^ ¦ ^~ ^—^ — —

    to the Loyal United Friends ; 7 , 000 to the Hearts of Oak ; 5 , 000 to the Order of the Phoenix ( temperance ) ; 3000 to the Odd

    Fellows , and a few to the , Rechabites and Sons of Temperance .

    The book casts considerable light on several subjects which form prominent features of

    East End life , such as ' sweating / the influx of ^—^ fm population M _ W ^^^ W ^^ ^ " ^» ^ f ^*^^» ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ , ^ W and ' ^ h' ^ F- ^ " » —^— — the — social — " — condition — of the

    forty Booth thousand points out Jews that of Whitechapel ' sweating' . is Mr not .

    peculiar to any system or branch of employmentand lays stress on the fact that an

    examination , of tjie system resolves itself into an inquiry into the conditions under

    which occupations recognised as sweated industries are worked , and the causes of the

    evils which are suffered . He shows that it is the ^* ** * K - ^^ ' pn small r **«^ 0 * *^^ ^ " " ^ master . " ~™ ^^ ^—^ r ^^ - » - - ^» ¦— - —in ¦— — ' ¦ ' many - M cases — no better ,

    and sometimes even worse , off than the people ¦ whom ¦ he employs ¦— ' —who is usually directly

    ¦ with responsible ^™ ^^ " " ^* ^ i * sweating ^^ ^ m ^^ ^ fc ^ ^^^ for — " ' —^ —• . the — The M bad sweating conditions monster ^ r associated of the Am

    popular - Besides " - ^~ ^^ ri . r Jfc ^ i ^™* ^ " ^ r % ^ the imag ^* ^» ^» ^«^ competition ^ " ^ ination ^ ^>^ " ^~ ^^ ¦» - ^ — — — has — — of no — ¦— the _ existence _ . . _ — small _ masters in fact . ,

    East London suffers from the competition of provincial factories , of women working at

    ti home tion— , and the from import two of forms goods of made forei with gn compe cheap

    labour labour abroad bforei , and gn immi the import gration of . ' equally It is further cheap

    shown that y Class B . ( the class of casual labour ) stands in the way of all the rest . ' The

    competition of B . drags down O . and D ., and that of

    C . and D . hang heavily upon E . Industrially , 'I we gain nothing from Class B . for all they do

    a CJ , could be done—and better done—by 0 . and I > . in their now idle hours . ' The removal of Class B .

    from the area of competition and the placing of them , under the care of the State seem to be

    the chief suggestions of this extremely able , timelyand careful summary of the facts and

    forces , which together constitute the social problem JL as it exists—to our national shame and

    peril—in the East of London . The practical utility of the book is increased by a map of

    the district , in which each street is coloured according to the social condition cf its

    residents .

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    May 15 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular 525 - — ¦ --- ¦ ¦ — '— - -A — - - — -- ------ - . .. -

    Two Books On Australia.* Dr. H. W. Dale,...

    TWO BOOKS ON AUSTRALIA . * Dr . H . W . Daleof Birminghamin an able

    and fascinating book , , gives us his ' Impressions , of Australia . ' He states that what surprised

    him most during his recent visit to the Antipodes was neither the great and undeveloped

    resources of the country , nor its political institutions , bufc the hospitality of the people . This This , even even more more than than weird weird scenery scenerv on on the tlift

    one hand , , or the splendid universities , churches , and schools on the other , filled Dr . Dale with

    pleasurable surprise . He speaks with warm appreciation of the ' unsparing hospitality and

    overflowing kindness of people of all sorts in the the Colonies Uolonie &* and ancU -he he traces traces such such attention attentionin in v ,

    part at least , to the depth and strength of that , affection in which Australians hold the mother

    and country it makes . ' Their them love extraordinaril ior England is sensitive a passion to , y

    the criticisms cf the English press and of the least distinguished of English travellers on

    Australian achievements , <—» institutions , and manners . The nearest of the stars , whatever

    its magnitude , is reduced by distance to * apoint of lig ¦ htandat the distance of 12000 - »^

    miles _ , Birming « . * , ham - , m and London - , Newcastle — , ^^ -m ^ and Penzancethe Suffolk village from which

    one man came , nearly thirty years tj ago , and the ~ Yorkshire town which another had not seen

    for more than forty years , seem very near together . All Engfland is home to the Colonists — —

    and <; j the home affections ^ j surround their JCnglish , # uest with an atmosphere of genial warmth . '

    The ^ — state of education , the political — m temper » » — ~ w ^_ and - ^^ | k a * V asp — — - -- _ — irations . — _ -- _ -. , — of _ the __ . — peop j - m ~ le — , w the — - social — — — - — — ^ life — — — - ^^ and ^* m mm rf * ^ b . ^ h

    religious thought of various sections of the community 19 are admirably indicated by Dr .

    Dale in this , opportune , vi * S gorous , and lucid - ^ - volume . He says that Australians have a

    great — ,- reverence for ^ — literary distinction — . . . , and v I . ^ r , at all events , they v appear JL JL to know a good CJ hook ^^

    when they see it . ' The general cultivation of a community is indicated more or less accurately

    by the books it buys . In Adelaide I had a long j—j conversation with a bookseller in Xin < ^^ T ^ T * V m % V *« ^~^ J . m >^ A ¦* m ^^

    William ^ * Street about ^ his stock , which ^ ^ was large—very large we should think it for a i

    town of sixty thousand people—and excellent in ! quality . He told me that to meet the demands

    * jnpr I-rxsions of Australia . By B . W . DaleLL . D . IaOndon : Hodder & Stoughton . ,

    Half a Century of AumtraHan Progress . By Willfam Westgarth . Lopdon : Fampson Low , Maraton < fe Co ., Limited . -

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1889, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051889/page/15/