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Title: The Survey October 1916-March 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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enough bread tohold body and soul together. Here are people who have be-come so used to hunger, cold, nakedness, weariness, disease,death, that they have lost the habit of complaint, or revolt, oreven inquiry, and accept their misery as passively as the flowertakes the gust of the hurricane or the chill of the autumnrains. And here are people who, amid a thousand ills of for-tune, preserve unimpaired their love for one another, theirfidelity to duty, their faith in God. Nothing can describe the power, beauty, pathos, of therevelations embodied in these little sketches of how the otherlives—and dies! The very simplicity of the style, not unlikethe rhythmic cadences of prayer, the very commonplaceness ofthe characters and the situations, the very obviousness of thestories which center about the most ordinary relations of 1 See Battle and Other Poems, page 45.- See Borderlands and Thoroughfares, page 76.5 See Borderlands and Thoroughfares, page 7.4 See Battle and Other Poems, page 76.
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WILFRED WILSON GIBSON father, mother, child and toiler, the very triteness of thethemes, which are only those of unemployment, sickness, in-dustrial accident, daily work for daily bread, the verymonotony of the episodes of life and death, are what consti-tute the books peculiar power. Go into a factory village, andhere, in The Betrothed, The First Born and The FamilysPride is what you would be most likely to see. Go into amining town, and here, in The Nightshift and Mates, iswhat you would encounter. Knock at any tenement doorand open, and here, in a half-dozen or more of these sketchesis the picture which you would behold. Speak to the firstperson whom you chanced to meet on some country lane or insome city square, and here is the story which you wouldhear. Wonderful is the skill with which, through selection of in-cident, character and speech, the poet has revealed the truthabout the dull routine of life in the home, and labor in themine and mill. And not merely the truth, but the b

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