State Contentment : an Allegory. By Robert Desborongh. (News- agents
and Publishing Company.)—" State Contentment" is a happy country, which the hero visits in a dream, where everybody is virtuous and well-off, the people having got rid of tho notion of property, and also of religion, which, after hearing an impassioned oration, five hours tong, and another calm and logical, of unrecorded length, they unani- mously agree to abolish. In fact, every trial and mental difficulty is solved; that of the division of labour, for instance, gives no trouble. The most intellectual minds find a pleasant relaxation in the coarsest toil, the statesmen—this is not meant ironically—cleaning out the sewers, &c. The little tale is pleasantly written, and has some sort of truthful air about it, so that we feel positively sorry for the poor hero when, being on the point of marrying a most beautiful bride, he unluckily awakes.
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