Industry and Property. By George Blocks. (Sampson Low, Marston, and
Co.)—This volume is a very determined and strongly worded attack on Socialism, which the author regards as immoral in essence and ruinous in result. It would, he thinks, make England poor, and, as he remarks, with epigrammatic force and no little truth, "The worst thing that can happen to a poor man is that he should be doomed to live in a poor country." Here is a pleasant little image by which Mr. John Burns is stated to have set forth the relation between labour and capital. Capital is the sledge vainly seeking to escape from the pursuit of the wolves of labour. One thing after another is sacrificed, but it only delays, it does not terminate, the pursuit. "Little by little we shall take all : so soon as we obtain one liberty we shall demand another. The wolves, the wolves, you know,—the wolves behind flu sledge."
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