19 SEPTEMBER 1885, Page 24

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant. (John Dale, Manchester.)— The writer hits some blots in our social system ; that it is not diffi- cult to do. The difficulty is to be just and candid, to see the causes of things, to do right, and to give just judgment between class and class. At this, as far as we can see, there is no attempt. Surely the talk about bishops, for instance, is very foolish. The book seems to come from Manchester. The writer ought to know something about one bishop, at all events ; and he must lack either honesty or common-sense to use such language as he does.