A Modern Humanist: Miscellaneous Papers of B. Kirkman Gray. Edited with a biographical introduction by Henry Bryan Binns, an appreciation by Clementina Black and a portrait.

B. Kirkman Gray; Henry Bryan Binns; Clementina Black

Verlag: A. C. Fifield, 1910

Beschreibung

Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Cloth shows some rubbing and light scuffs, very faint soiling. Interior is unmarked; some pages with minor foxing. Frontispiece portrait of Kirkman Gray with tissue guard. 271, plus [16] pages publisher's advertising. Scarce. A collection of writings by Benjamin Kirkman Gray (1862-1907), a historian of philanthropy in England, sociological writer, socialist, and member of the Independent Labour Party, whose writing often touched on the problems of poverty and social reform. Includes a 53-page biographical introduction by the English biographer Henry Bryan Binns and a ten-age essay ''Kirkman Gray as a Sociologist'' by Clementina Black, English feminist, novelist, and socialist activist. Contents: 1. A Modern Humanist: B. Kirkman Gray (H. B. Binns). 2. Kirkman Gray as a Sociologist (C. Black). I. London. II. A Bank Holiday Crowd. III. The Mind of a Londoner: Notes for a Study of William Blake. IV. A Bucolic Ideal. V. Two Tramps. VI. On Slum Theology. VII. The Ethical Problem. VIII. The Communion of the Earth. IX. A Hill Shrine. X. Impression of Claude Monet. XI. Notes on a Blake Exhibition. XII. London in the Reigns of the Georges. XIII. The Social Value of Hooligans. XIV. On Going Back to School. XV. Culture and Dirt. XVI. A Children's Home in Leipzig. XVII. Co-operative Housing in Berlin. XVIII. [Ernst] Abbe's Theory of Industry. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014353

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Titel: A Modern Humanist: Miscellaneous Papers of B...

Verlag: A. C. Fifield

Erscheinungsdatum: 1910

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good