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NEW EDITIONS.—In Messrs. Macmillan's "Library of English Classics," The History

of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, 2 vols. (7s. net).--The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. By Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)— State prohibition is giving way in the United States. In the big towns it is practically a dead letter. You can prohibit, say, in Brixton—to transfer the example to our own country—if there is freedom in London. This is a storehouse of facts, which are certain to be instructive, whatever view we may take of the expedient or the possible in the direction of legislation.