Practicable Socialism. By the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A.
Barnett. (Longmans.)—Both the praiseworthy efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett in the direction of social reform, and the various magazine and other essays in which they have embodied their experiences, and the theories of the realisation of "practicable socialism" which they have based on these experiences, are so well known, that it is only necessiry to say now that their various papers have been colle3ted and published in a handy book form. They are eminently worth reading, for both the incumbent of St. Jude's and Mrs. Barnett hav3 an interesting style ; and even when one differs from them—and one differs from them often—one finds much in their writing to sympathise with. As a graphis picture of the misery and poverty now to be found in the East End, there is hardly any better book for reference and other purposes than Practicable Socialism.
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