of the art of living has, indeed, increased so much in volume during the last twenty-five years, that it requires a very strong effort to think ourselves back into the state of mind we were in when the Birmingham Congress of 1857 was held. Persons were then to be found, by no means unintelligent, who called in question the statement that bad drainage was one of the factors which bring about disease. It was still a common opinion among middle-aged people that education, far from being a blessing or a right of the poor, was, as a general rule, distinctly harmful; that it unsettled their minds, shook their faith in the truths of religion, and their belief in the facts on which all orderly society is based; in fact, that it wholly unfitted them for the condition of life which they were destined to fill. One does not hear these precise forms of nonsense publicly advocated now. If there be still a few oddly constituted beings so in love with demonstrated error as yet to cherish these and kindred superstitions, they are like the rural folk who yet cling to the notion of witchcraft. They are aware that all instructed people hold convictions the very opposite to theirs, and that they are in so small a minority that it is wise to keep silence. This great change is, of course, due to a general growth of the whole mass of our people in true refinement and culture. Its causes lie deep in history, and are manifold far beyond any powers of ours to count. One of them, and that by no means the least potent, has been the society which held its yearly congress at Nottingham on September 20-27 of this year. We well remember, in the early days of its existence, how witty persons gibed at a body which had a misnomer for a name, pointing out with a labour of illustration that social science was a non-existent thing-an impossibility, in fact for the reason that science dealt with facts that could be known and classified, whereas society, not having its foundations in physics, was, in the nature of things, incapable of such treatment. We do not hear these silly quibbles now, for all persons whose opinions are worth regarding tell us of this or that advantage that has been gained for mankind by the action of the society, or of the very eminent men who have been or are its leading spirits. Few people, however, know the large field over which its exertions have spread, or the number and value of the results that have been obtained directly through its agency. In the little book before us Mr. Clifford-Smith has endeavoured to classify the five-and-twenty years' work of the society of which he is secretary, and to give the ordinary reader, who cannot go through a whole library of reports, some idea of the good work done. His book is but a short historical epitome, but it shows great powers of condensation, and is a most valuable handbook on the history of practical sociology. It seems to us safe to say that the labours of the Society for the Amendment of the Law alone should compel the gratitude of mankind. A vast and many-sided work has been accomplished without party agencies or party strife, and the attention of legislators has been drawn to blots which they have at length been forced to wipe from the statute book. Much has also been done in the department of public health, though by no means so much as would have been accomplished had the suggestions of the society fallen on less occupied and more willing ears. MR. 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