and certainly very different to the comforts of home, or a "home" such as Hampden House offers to them.

Clerks' Chambers" is another attempt to protect young men engaged in London from the dangers of large cities, by providing suitable lodgings for young men and women, especially those from the country without friends or relations. A great deal too much is said about the misery of the poor, and too little about the sufferings of the immense number of young people of both sexes who are suddenly deprived of the comforts of a home and sent amongst strangers, and have for consolation after their day's labour the attractions of a bedroom in a lodging-house; yet we wonder and condemn those who, out of pure loneliness, are attracted to music halls, yield to the temptations of the streets, form evil acquaintances, and "go to the bad."

"The Alexandra Home" at South Kensington is being erected to supply a home for 100 of the female students attending classes at the Royal College of Music, the South Kensington Museum, and other art and science schools in the neighbourhood. Let us hope that other wealthy men will follow the example of Mr. Francis Cook, who presented £40,000 for the erection of this institution; and it is much to the credit of Messrs. Lucas Brothers that they offered to erect the buildings for the bare cost of materials and labour. Such homes are much wanted to protect the young girls who attend the numerous classes in connection with the various branches of art and science at South Kensington, and who are in consequence exposed to temptations and trials which it is not only our duty, but a wise policy, for the good of the State, if possible, to remove from their path.