A Handbook for Charity Workers by General Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Baltimore New York The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. 1907 All rights reserved Copyright, 1899, by The MacMillan Company. Set up and electrotyped January, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899; February, 1903;   February, 1906; November, 1907. {v} This little volume is intended as a handbook for those who are beginning to do charitable work in the homes of the poor, whether as individuals

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There is a certain development in the English novel of which I have long seemed to be vaguely conscious. At one time I hoped to set myself the task of tracing it, though I have since relinquished all thought of this as too ambitious. The movement—if, indeed, there be such a movement—has always pictured itself to my mind as the march of the plain and common people into the foreground of English fiction. I venture to introduce the idea here, though it may appear foreign to my subject, as illustrat