LIVING ON A POUND A WEEK.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 9

LIVING ON A POUND A WEEK.

In Round About a Pound a Week," Mrs Pember Reeves has' produced a work not only of value to the student of social questions, but of deep human interest. . She has taken a district in the South of London, inhabited by carters, labourers, and others earning from.about £1 to 26s a week, and she has shown us exactly fwr hf ° T Tn , e ' ans _J t<> 51066S 1066 an<i their <%?s**' t l^ 6 J IT „ K °wntree in his Study of Poverty," she gives Us detf«ii _* cco " n * s » n °t only of the household expenditure, but of tho daily menus-m many of theso homes. She Sf?.* gone nearly so elaborat.lv.into Sen n". o\ M _ R ™ ntr6e > but she has given us a book of more vjtal interest c_ c w r bright aßd informing _Jn J" f + b *f fore __** a P ictur « of the poor rows, and the occasional touches of humour with which their drab, SvS are mercifully brightened. Wo maTteko ° f re %«ng a te this m the n-eantime we can W« y .„ Comiae . nd -* to our reader? Wo should especially like the xnSk who think they are badly.off in Xew S,^ d ito study the cond&s of lite X T E nd .-London: G. Bell and a-iis. LS m t h^,wH^