ABSTRACT
Another work on similar subjects is Socialism: its Growtli andOutcome, by Messrs. William Morris and Belfort Bax, also published by Messrs. Sonnenschein & Co. This book is very different in appearance from that which we have just noticed, which is produced in the plain fashion common to the books in the 'Social SciencesSeries'. The book ofwhich Mr. Willian1 Morris is the principal author is produced in a style as consistent with his poetic and artistic surroundings as is to be expected, and its margins, its paper, its type and binding make it a pleasure to behold. When we come, however, to the contents where, ofcourse, we find a cultivated and a pleasant style, we discover, indeed, a history of what has frequently been described-the growth of Socialistic opinion from the days of the ancients to those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Karl Marx, and the Paris Commune; but, while there is much therefore about the'growth', the'outcome' is dealt with only in the last two or twentieth and twenty-first chapters, and in a somewhat perfunctory fashion. We should hardly like to use language which would not be that of politeness about writers so civilized and so civil; but we fail to find the slightest guidance, and we fail even to discover anything that is new in these two chapters. They might be sermons upon Socialism preached from a pulpit by one of the fashionable clergymen of the day
