Our Fields and Cities. By Scrivener C. Scrivener. (T. Fisher
Unwin.)—Mr. Scrivener seeks, we suppose, to rival William Cobbett's " Rural Rides." He traverses various regions of England, and criticises various arrangements and institutions, in -which he thinks, it is evident, that he sees his way to a great improvement. Mr. Scrivener's views are hardly worth considering. We take one trifling instance. Ho thinks that we might grow fruit to more advantage if we did away, all we understand, with landlords and railway charges. It is possible ; but it would be a further improvement if one-half of the population could appro- priate the forced labour of the other, and, we venture to think, scarcely more immoral. The land and the railways represent past labour. But even then there would remain the early frosts. By what legislation does Mr. Scrivener propose to deal with them P
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