opinion-nay, more, assert it to be the only way to get rid of the evil ; improve the class, act in such a way that your efforts get the "class to work with you," for their own social advancement. This is the remedy for nearly all the misery and degradation in our midst; in a thoughtful and kindly manner, work for the lower class, but in such a way that they work with you, and rise in character as well as into improved dwellings. No putting the burden on the rates, no wholesale pampering of the class, will clue poverty; it will increase it. It is like moving the people out of their crowded houses-their wretched hovels; it is like hunting the costermonger and the street-walker. You may make their life more difficult, but you harden them; you make them lower, not higher, by such conduct. As Miss Hill says; " If you move the people, they carry the seeds of evil away with them; they must be somewhere, and they want improved dwellings which they can inhabit, and where care can be taken of them. . . . You can hunt the poor about from place to place, oust them out of one place and drive them to another; but you will never reach the poor except through people who care about them, and watch over them."

To remove the misery, the disease, the mortality in "rookeries," the aid of Government was invited. It responded by the Artisans' Dwellings Act; giving to local authorities power to pull clown bad houses, and provide for the building of good ones. "What have been the results? A summary of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, dated December 21, 1883, shows that up to last September it had, at a cost of a million and a quarter to ratepayers, unhoused 21,000 persons, and