Under no circumstances that I can conceive would it work successfully, and it may be dismissed to the regions of Utopia" ("The Nationalisation of the Land," by SAMUEL SMITH, M.P.).

How is it possible to do what we are told must be done to get rid of our social difficulties. In Tract No. 3, Mr. A. B. Wallace, says: "Now, an essential part of our scheme of land nationalization is, that every man can claim as a nut (and in his life) to have such a piece of land allotted him (an acre or two, so that he may build a workshop or a cottage upon it if he likes, and be free from all interference by landlord, agent, or lawyer) at its fair agricultural value; and further, that lie shall not be obliged to take any piece of ]aucl, however unsuitable it may be to him, but shall be able to choose a piece wherever most convenient to himself, the only limit being that it must adjoin some public road, and shall not be in such a position as unnecessarily to annoy or inconvenience the farmer or other present occupier. The principle we maintain is, that the primary and the highest use of a nation's land is to provide Healthy and happy homes for the greatest number of its public, and that it should be the birthright of every British subject to have the use and enjoyment of a portion of his native land, with unnecessary restriction on that enjoyment other than that implied by the equal rights of others." In the same tract we are told that ''the prospect of leaving such a plot of land, from which no landlord can turn him out, and in the possession of which lie will be as secure and independent as any squire or farmer in the country, will certainly tend to make men sober and saving..... Such a labourer would be much more independent than he can possibly be now, and would not be found to accept any wages, however low, in order to keep himself and