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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ir general circulation attest the popularityof these volumes, the depth of their ethicalinsight, the reach of their ideals, and a cer-tain subtlety of style and spiritual analysis in-vest them with a charm to the critical reader. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets and the forthcoming volume, TwentyYears at Hull House, are certain to in-crease the personal influence and permanentvalue of her authorship. Thinking her own way through to thepublic profession of the Christian faith andmembership in the Congregational Churchin her early womanhood, )VIiss Addams hasnever ceased to be a student of the experi-ence and philosophy of religion and to lovethe fello\\ship of the closest followers ofChrist, Her devotion to such saints asFrancis of Assisi and Leo Tolstoi is notgreater than her reverence for the humblestneighbor who in tenement house home, inshop or store, amid the storm and stress ofindustrial and urban life, lives out and lovesin the common faith in Father God and fel-low men.
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RECEPTION HALL. HULL HOUSE. MRS. BARNETT AND HER WORK FORSOCIAL REFORM IN LONDON. I^ VER since she came as a brideof twenty-one to St. JudesVicarage, Whitechapel, Mrs.Henrietta Octavia Barnett, wifeof Canon Barnett, has been ac-tively identified with social re-form work in and about theBritish metropolis. From 187.?to 1906, in Whitechapel, some-times at Bristol and at West-minster, and now most of all atHampstead, she has been con-stantly in evidence, a motherlywoman who, having no childrenof her own, had adopted every-body within reach as foster sonsand daughters. The wife of achurch dignitary, entirely freefrom the taint of ecclesiasticism,joint-founder of the original uni-versity settlement, who is not inthe least a prig, Mrs. Barnett hasspent the best part of her life ineverybodys service. The strangething is that she has not wornout the physical vehicle which hashad to carry so long her eagerand impetuous soul. Mrs. Bar-nett was born in 1851, but shehas preserved unimpaired to th

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