of the poor, according to Mr.Booth.Even applied to a higher grade of labour, a close investigation of facts discloses a grossly exaggerated notion of the sums spent in drink by city workers in receipt of good wages.

A careful inquiry into the expenditure of a body of three hundred Amalgamated Engineers during a period of two years, yielded an average of 1s.9d.per week spent on drink.
So, too, in the cases brought to the notice of the Lords' Committee, drink and personal vices do not play the most important part.

The Rev.
S.A.Barnett, who knows East London so well, does not find the origin of poverty in the vices of the poor.

Terrible as are the results of drunkenness, impurity, unthrift, idleness, disregard of sanitary rules, it is not possible, looking fairly at the facts, to regard these as the main sources of poverty.

If we are not carried away by the spirit of some special fanaticism, we shall look upon these evils as the natural and necessary accessories of the struggle for a livelihood, carried on under the industrial conditions of our age and country.