Now, what does he propose as remedies? (And to this
he devotes five chapters.) Savings Banks, Temperance
Societies, Re-establishbment of Guilds, Workmen's Co-
operative Societies, Patronages, Old Age Pensions, Tax
Reform. Profit-sharing (this to be spontaneous and not
compulsory), Teebnical and Industrial Training, Pre-
ven of Dishonest poy om Courts of Arbitration.
Soderini is of opinion that difficulties may arise between
employer and employed, even under these new and
favourable conditions; but these will easily be arranged
through the medium of an independent, intelligent, and
disinterested arbitrator—the P: tor choice. Without
loans, he says, commerce would well-nigh impossible ;
therefore loans are to be facilitated, and inveighing
pee eaeey be advocates the fixing of a “ legal interest.”
In expounding each remedy, Soderini is anxious to explain
that nothing must be done which is likely to disturb
social order. The remarks on education are in accordance
with this idea; and when be asks; “ Are strikes justi-
fiable?" answers, in effect, “‘ Yee—occasio! wheo 20
injury direct, or indirect, is done to the em: or the
blackleg.” The workman mast not deviate the way
of peace towards others, nor ran counter to the injunc-
tions of the law. But the chief, the only efficacious
remedy, is to return to the Charch. This will solve the
whole question—remedy every existing evil, and re-estab-
lish society on a firm and satisfactory basis. Thus, also
will Sociahem, , this modern Attila, be vanquished.

The primary cause of Socialism, we are told, is not
injustice, or wrong, or frand, or aggression, or tyranny,
but the abandonment of the Christian principle. Soderiai
apparently forgets that the it social and economic
stracture bas arisen under the protection aod with the
sanction of the Cborch.

There is much in tbe book that is palpably erroneous,
and the gist of it — to be oe
perha robbed in a slightly jegree without
cloudy wjeaiag those who live on the proceeds of their
labour. The very remedies be would either be
fresh instruments in the hands of the privileged classes,
or are totally inadequate to grapple with the difficulty—
*t Phe work is 2 ecbol ly d, though prejudiced

work isa jarly one, and, t! j , on
the whole moderate ia tone. =