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(Continued from page 367.) We have always tried to oppose Socialism vigorously. So, too, has Professor Hearnshaw in his Survey of Socialism (Macmillan, 15s.), but his vigour is dissipated by a profuse scattering of every epithet of condemnation. This is a pity, as his know- ledge of the history of the movement is wide and deep. Like many others, he was attracted to it in a warm-hearted youth and he can still be fair at moments to misguided idealists, but his sound learning is clogged with so much vituperation of silly or evil people and ideas, which makes little appeal to reason, that his book will never carry the weight of one like Dr. Shadwell's Socialist Movement with which it invites comparison. However, we agree with his history of the theories and practice of Socialism throughout Europe, especially when he trounces exploded Marxism.
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