the cultivation of cottage or co-operative farms, as a remedy for overcrowding in great cities, and want of employment in agricultural districts. A "consummation devoutly to be wished" the finding of employment for the unemployed, and carrying on industries in comparatively deserted rural districts, and diverting the rush from the large towns. But is it possible? No; like other attempts in the same direction to elevate the condition of the mass of the people, the attempt is not practicable. A philanthropist is too apt to imagine that factories and workshops and remunerative occupations for persons of both sexes require only a society to be formed and public meetings to be held ; whereas, in reality, there are few things more difficult than to establish an industry, or divert it from the locality where it has been carried on. To be successful, it must be situated in the locality where it can be most economically produced and distributed. The time has passed for "home industries" or "village communities," and it is wiser to tell the people how best to help themselves by a proper understanding of the conditions of the age they live in, than to attempt to establish a scheme only adapted for the middle ages.

On July 17, 1884, the "Hampden House Residential Club" was opened, and we have here a common-sense attempt to better the condition of a large class. The object of the club is to provide a comfortable home and club for young men engaged as students, or in professional or commercial pursuits. In the house young men get, in addition to the bedroom of the ordinary lodging-house, a dining-room and coffee-room, and the advantage of reading-room, smoking-room, bath-room; and it supplies a great want in protecting young men who come to London from