as a necessary condition of higher civilization, that the poor must live joyless, stinted lives; and that their earnings are a starvation wage, only leaving them sufficient to pay for the most wretched hovel that will enable them to hide their wretchedness in. The "outcast poor" get a lot of sympathy, but do not deserve our sympathy and help, like those who have foolishly let slip the position they occupied, and have descended, step by step, to the lowest rung of the ladder; their suffering ought to be more generally known, and servo as a warning to their brethren to value more highly than they do the situations they occupy. Life is a grand problem, much of it insoluble to us, but it great deal of it that might be made plain to the commonest understanding. "Poverty," its causes and remedies, is a subject of interest to all, and one that is to be made understandable by all, if we study the game as it is now played, and introduce truth, in place of colourable impostures and delusions. We want our thinkers to give their minds more to "every-day life," to address themselves to the commonest occasions of life, as much as to the highest. We want a greater personal intercourse with the poor by the middle and better classes of society-a better knowledge of the poor, and the way they live; their incomes, how earned, how spent; a better appreciation of the difficulties in the way of their upward progress, owing to their being removed from every humanizing influence by the squalor of their surroundings; living, from the cradle to the brave, in the midst of debasing and degrading conditions. We have relied too winch upon the philanthropic aid of the benevolent,