sold for a railway station, and the other is only now being covered with industrial dwellings, which will eventually accommodate one-half the expelled population ; the result up to the present being that, added to those displaced by the Metropolitan Board of Works, these 1,734 displaced five years ago form a total of nearly 11,000 artificially made houseless, who have had to find covering for themselves in miserable places that were already overflowing!" (HERRERT SPENCER). The fault of legislative interference is, that it wants to do too much. The work of supervising, cleansing, and repairing the house accommodation of the working class-a work really needed-is put aside for the more popular task of pulling down and building model houses. Squalid London is too vast to be pulled down and rebuilt in a hurry. Even were this possible, it is doubtful whether it would be desirable. Thousands of little adjustments, by which time and circumstances have provided many gradations of houses to suit corresponding gradations in the means and wants of their inhabitants, would be swept away, and it may well be doubted whether the hard and fast rules of the building philanthropist would form a completely successful substitute. But regular and careful supervision would quickly produce a salutary change in the condition, and even in the appearance, of the Metropolis. In most localities it would supply all that is needed, and where houses are so bad as to be beyond repair, it would, at any rate, act as a palliative until the moment arrived for their demolition. Moreover, the burden of repairing would, as far as the law can accomplish it, be thrown upon the right person-namely, the rent-receiving owner.