this collection we must leave alone ; it opens out
too big a subject. We would only remark that if the Greek ideal of a polis limited to ten thousand citizens were realised, things would be not a little easier to manage than they are. The "impressions" make excellent reading. The author tries a day as a " sandwichman" ; he tells us something about the ways of moneylenders ; he sees a competition among hairdressers ; he attends a meeting of Anarchists, followed by a ball, for "an Anarchist loves his enjoy- ment as well as another "; he relates the experiences of a friend who went to a matrimonial agent; and consults in his own person a fortune-teller, and is very much impressed by what he hears,— are not, we would ask, such things better left alone, to ne quaesieris, scirs 'Was, Ace.? Altogether, this is a most readable little volume, published, we would say, for the benefit of Lady Knill's Fund "For God's Poor."
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