Our National Resources, and How They are Wasted. By William
Hoylo. (Sitnpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The substance of Mr. Hoyle's volume— "an omitted chapter in political economy," he calls it—is this : if we could only do without drinking alcoholic liquors, we should save two hundred millions a year. This being proved, and having, so to speak, his two hundred millions in band, he proceeds to lay it out in the most judicious manner,—twenty-five millions in clothing and bedding for people who have not enough, ten millions more as food for the same, twenty millions on better houses and so on, schools, teachers, ministers (five thousand of them at £400 a year each), lay teachers (thirty thousand at £100 a year), missionaries (ton thousand at £500), libraries and every other instrument of-morality and religion being provided for in the most liberal manner. How tempting the prospect! If we only could I Will some one calcu- late how much we should save if we could do without eating, and how great would be the economy of tine if wo could dispense with sloop ? Is Mr. Hoyle's idea so very much more practicable ? At the same time, we do not wish to deny the value of his book. The truth is we want a groat deal of preaching to about this same drinking practice. We shall never got Mr. Hoyle's two hundred millions, but we can do something towards stopping this awful waste of wealth, material and moral, which is going on, and enthusiaats like our author aro just the men who can help us.
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