longer works, but they will be widely read, and deserve
the credit duo to an honest purpose and a keen sympathy with the subject of which he treats. Mr. Farjeon's proposition amounts to this,—given radical difference of home and training, and of two brothers, one shall serve the State, while the other is an outlaw ; of two sisters, one shall he a ministering angel, the other an outcast ; and he would have for result, in considering that question, that everyone should individually put his hand to the plough, till none were left orphaned, or homeless, or ignorant in all the land. These thoughts are embodied in a tale of groat simplicity and some beauty, but which contains a good deal of very poor reason- ing. Mr. Farjeon's great difficulty is that he does not know his friends from his foes, and in the darkness is fighting those who are doing the work ho really has at heart, for him.
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