and such mechanical knowledge as shall conduce to success therein. I am for workmen being given whatever education gentlemen have, but including in it such instruction as shall make a youth so much of a carpenter and a farmer that he shall know how to clear ground, put up a log-house, and understand land, crops, and the management of live stock. Without this knowledge, a mechanic, or clerk, or even an M.A. of Oxford, is more helpless than a common farm labourer who cannot spell the name of the poorhouse which sent him out. We have in Europe surplus population; elsewhere lie rich and surplus acres. The new need of progress is to transfer, overcrowding workmen to the unoccupied prairies. Parents shrink from the idea of their sons having to leave their own country; but they have to do this when they become soldiers-the hateful agents of empires lately carrying desolation and death among people as honest as themselves, but more unfortunate. Half the courage which led young men to perish at Isandula, or on the rocks of Afghanistan, would turn into a paradise the wildest wilderness in the world, of which they would become the proprietors. While honest men are doomed to linger anywhere in poverty and precariousness, this world is not fit for a gentleman to live in. Dives may have his purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. 1, for one, pray that the race of Dives may increase; but what I wish also is, that never more shall a Lazarus be found at his gate."

An attractive picture, but it must be remembered that the Americans are a very keen, shrewd, enterprising people, and it is useless to go there unless you are equal to them in intelligence