19 SEPTEMBER 1896, Page 24

The New Kingdom. By F. Reginald Statham. (Swan Sonnen- schein

and Co.)—Mr. Statham appears to be for making some- thing like a clean sweep. The " family as the unit of society " has not been a success. The possession of land is " the mcst amazing thing imaginable." And yet one might fancy that what has been practised semper, ubique, et ab omnibus, might cease to amaze. (Mr. Statham probably imagines that land becomes naturally and without human effort corn-land, pasture, or hop- garden.) In fact we have here a Socialist of the blindest and most unreasonable kind.