A Marked Man. By Faucet Streets. (Mawson and Co., Sunder-
land.)—This is a story (of the series of " Mawson's Northern Tales ") dealing with the relations of capital and labour, not without merit, but somewhat crude. The most disinterested and clear-sighted patriot is the better for baying some sense of humonr, whatever Mr. "Faucet Streets" may think. An election address of the "pompous, unbending kind" could hardly have been a "model of feline flattery;" nor can a candidate who "promised no more than that he would support a Conservative Government through thick and thin" have done much in the way of "cool, calculated political lying." How did the author find out that "landowners or their ancestors" have, by "cunning and fraud," "placed Hodge and his family in the mire"? Does he believe in the "social compact" theory, and think that some of the once equal contracting parties have been fraudulently dispossessed of their rights ?
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