Guild Principles in War and Peace. By S. G. Hobaon.
(0. Bell. and Sons. 2s, ed. net.)—Mr. Hohson'ts fur:nolo for the millennittin is the National. Guild. The workers in each industry are to control it, and earls one of them, whether employed or not, is to he salaried at the expense of the industry. Thus we shall be freed from wagery "—a word that Mr. Hobson doubtless invonted, since he oars it BO often—awl from the " brutal " doctrine that labour is a commodity. Mr. Holdout idea is interesting, but, instead of telling us how it may be putt into practice, he wastes far tea much of his little book in attacking employers in general, the (lsaten Foundation, the Round Table, Lord Wrenbury, Mr. Sidney Waalt, Sir. Graham Wallas, Mr. diasaiughatn, and the Spectator. We are not at all rotuacious of having " carried self-complacency to the giddy heights of spiritual cowardice," as Mr. Hobson kindly asserts ; whatever faults may be laid to the charge of this, iournar, self-complacency and cowardice are surely not among them. It ie, however, to be regretted that Mr. Hobson is fonder of controversy than of plain and sober exposition. Mr. Orrige's introductory essay on Labour after the War, thought needlessly pessimistic iu torso, it much more helpful.
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