Recollections of Workhouse Visiting and Management During Twenty-Five Years

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX IX. I Cannot refrain from adding one more fact concerning a London workhouse which I visited, and where the master, his wife, and daughter were for years the only paid officers besides the porter and taskmaster. I used to hear strange, but true, stories about them. Some years after their dismissal, the daughter was readmitted, as a pauper and a confirmed drunkard, in the very house where she used to employ the women to embroider her fine petticoats, and set an example of vanity! A LIST OF KEG AN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 1.33. London. A LIST OF KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. CONTENTS. PAGE General L1terature.. 2 Internat1onal Sc1ent1f1c Ser1es.... 29 M1l1tary Works...31 PAGE Poetry 34 Works Of F1ct1on.. 43 Books For The Young. 44 GENERAL LITERATURE. ADAMS, F. 0., F.R.G.S.--Ttie History of Japan. From the Earliest Period to the Present time. New Edition, revised. 2 vols. With Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo, 21s. each. ADAMSON, H. T" B.D.--The Truth as it is in Jesus. Crown 8vo, Ss. 6d. The Three Sevens. Crown 8vo, $s. 6d. The Millennium; or, the Mystery of God Finished. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. A. K. H. Z?.--From a Quiet Place. A New Volume of Sermons. Crown 8vo, $s. ALLEN, Rev. R., M.A.--Abraham: his Life, Times, and Travels, 3800 years ago. With Map. Second Edition. Post 8vo, 6s. ALLEN, Grant, B.A.--Physiological./Esthetics. Large post 8vo, 9. ALLLES, T. W., Af.A.--'PeT Crucem ad Lucem. The Result of a Life. 2 vols. Demy 8vo, 2$s. A Life's Decision. Crown 8vo, fs. bd. ANDERDON, Rev. W. H.--Fasti Apostolici; a Chronology of the years between the Ascension of our Lord and the Martyrdom of SS. Peter and Paul. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. ANDERSON, R. C., C.E.--Tables for Facilitating the Calculation of Kvery Detail in...