and Colleges might wisely be urged to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the suggestions of this earnest and interesting book. While not a few who are already in the ministry would be greatly delighted in the perusal of pages that open to them again the possibilities of student life, and that bear in upon them the conviction, at once solemn and joyful, that they not only may be, but must be perpetually learners if they are to be continually teachers. The book would be a capital theme for College Debates, for Clerical Conferences, as it certainly would be an invaluable companion to every young minister who longs, for Christ's sake and the world's, to make the best of his high calling.

COLLECTED ESSAYS ON THE PREVENTION OF PAUPERISM.
BLACKLEY, M. A., Rector of North Waltham, Hants.
Paul, Paternoster Square.

OUR NATIONAL PAUPERISM, a Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey. By Rev. W. L. BLACKLEY, M.A. London: National Provident League, Savoy.

These publications ought to be in the hands of Ministers of Religion throughout the land that is so grievously and shamefully the scene of Pauperism as England is. For none, as far as we have observed, come into closer contact with the pauper classes, and none, as a rule, feel more keenly for them and seek to alleviate their woes than true Ministers of all communions of the Church. Our Sacred Writings, scarcely less in the New than in the Old Testament, supply at once inspirations and principles, and, indeed, very largely, maxims and methods for dealing with the poor, which are perversely overlooked by the nation generally, and even by its religious teachers. But these Essays and this Sermon by Mr. Blackley, who in the best sense is an enthusiast in the cause he represents, are by no means simple reproductions of any literal directions, either Judaic or early Christian. He has become possessed by the spirit of the Bible in the matter, and has adapted its development to the needs of our land and age. He mainly, and very powerfully, argues for a System of National Insurance, which, in almost every direction, would obliterate all the evils that now lead to, and accompany, and follow pauperism. Our readers who would become acquainted with the facts of the case, and have fairly and ably put before them "a national cure for a national cause," should read both the Sermon, so appropriately preached in England's chief Sanctuary, and the collected shilling volume of Essays.

LAND NATIONALISATION, ITS NECESSITY AND ITS AIMS, being a comparison of the system of Landlord and Tenant with that of occupying ownership, in their influence on the well-being of the People. By ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE. London: Trubner and Co., Ludgate Hill.

The Land Question is not only coming to the front in the consideration of the Politician, but in that of every Minister of Religion who is burdened, as is the writer of the books reviewed in our last notice, with the social, and consequently

moral wrongs to be found in English society, on every hand, to-day. Indeed, in his dedicatory note to this volume Mr. Wallace points to the Land Question as to "the great reform which will surely tend to abolish pauperism." We are inclined to think that national insurance and nationalisation of the land together would, to a large degree, effect what Mr. Blackley and Mr. Wallace each think his own panacea would accomplish, and the more rapidly if the Blue Ribbon crusade continues its magnificent victories. This book deals clearly and courageously with its chosen topic under such heads as, Our Poverty and our Wealth, Landlordism in Ireland, Scotland, and England, Occupying Ownership, Cause of Low Wages and Pauperism, The Solution of the Problem. The key-note of the whole is, of course, "Occupying Ownership," by which is meant not any phase of wild communism, such as that all men should have equal holdings, but simply this, "that the occupier and cultivator of the land should be also the virtual owner.” The advantages of this are clearly set out, the practicability of it is thoroughly dealt with, and the rectitude of it earnestly contended for. Perhaps no part of the book is more conclusive than the weighty indictment, under ten heads, against the present unrestricted private property in land. We have no hesitation in giving in our adhesion to the principle for which Mr. Wallace contends, not mainly because he is able to fortify many of his positions by quotations from Froude, John Stuart Mill, Professor Newman, Herbert Spencer, and Mr. Gladstone, but because we find that principle veining the entire teachings of the Old and New Testament, and gathered up in the inspired declaration, "The earth hath He given to the children of men." We recommend our readers to become possessed of this little book, little in size, great in worth. For it cannot but be well for Christendom that the teachers of its accepted Religion should let their thoughts play freely around

amelioration of the masses of the Commonwealths themselves.

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theme that so greatly concerns the social its population, and the righteous stability of The men who were eloquent about Free Trade in Corn, and Slave Emancipation, must not have successors who are dumb about the anomalies, and wrongs, and tyrannies, of our present Land Laws.

THE TEMPERANCE PRIMER, an Elementary Lesson Book designed to teach the Nature and Properties of Alcohol. By JAMES RIDGE, M.D., B.Sc., Lond. London National Temperance League, 337, Strand.

Probably few men have more to do with schools, either as Managers or on Boards, than the readers of the Homilist. We are, therefore, glad from time to time to bring under their notice the educational works that are sent us for review. Specially is this the case in the present instance. For if, by any means, the England that is now of school age can be enlightened and impressed rightly about Alcohol, there is some hope that in a generation or two we may have a sober England. This Primer is well calculated to interest and to teach those for whom it is so designed. What higher praise can a school-book seek or have?

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