enormous. The amount o of capital expended in the construction of railways only in this country has been estimated at more than 1700,000,000, and the total receipts upon British railways have reached £43,000,000 per annum. . . . The telegrams of Great Britain number about one-fourth of a million a-week. . . . Even the little phosphorus match is being manufactured and con? sumed at a rate estimated at more than 10,000,000,000 daily." (GEORGE GORE).

Mr. George Gore's admirable book, " The Scientific Basis of National Progress," is utterly opposed to Mr. George's "Progress and Poverty." It makes no difference to me which is true, but viewed dispassionately, with a desire to get at the truth, by one who was born amongst the working class, who knows their difficulties, and is as anxious as any one to find out "how to improve the condition of the masses," it seems a great error of judgment, a mistaken and, cruel kindness, to tell the working class that the wealth and progress of the nation during the last century is due to their labour. Analyze as you will any of the operations that have benefited the nation during the last century, and then say if you think the same is solely due to the working class. No, you will not ; on the contrary, you would find, that 'the working class have had their share in the benefits by 'being more-fully"employed and better maintained than at any previous period of the world's history ; and they owe the improvement to the scientific thinker, the skilled manufacturer, the enterprising distributor, and the speculative capitalist. Of each we may truly say, "As they sowed, so they have reaped."