The Poor in Great Cities

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Excerpt from The Poor in Great Cities: Their Problems and What Is Doing to Solve Them The papers composing this book were contributed to Scribner's Magazine during the years 1891-1893 by authors whose work embodied personal experience and close and sympathetic study, and by artists whose drawings were made among the life they represent. They form perhaps the most important group of essays thus far printed upon one of the most vital and (what is by no means the same thing) one of the most widely discussed subjects of the time. It is, indeed, the central subject of all social questions, for all of these, under whatever name, deal with the means of improving the conditions of life and with the relief of suffering as the necessary forerunners of all other reforms, and whatever may be the difficulties of those conditions, or the amount of that suffering in rural communities or among special classes away from towns, it is only in the centres of population that they present their great general problems to the observation of all people alike, and compel an answer to the question of their remedy. Any series of papers on the Poor in Great Cities will have had many predecessors - has indeed in England a whole literature behind it, of whose masterpieces some show their practical results today in different individual directions, and some have become, so to speak, the literary classics of their subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.