ABSTRACT
Higher praise than this the relief committees could not have; the grim king Death himself affirms that their arrangements, including the extra liberality of boards of guardians, have not only prevented an increase of his harvest, but have even hindered his usual work. Under these circumstances we can afford to think lightly of the impositions practised from time to time upon the committees by undeserving recipients, and to look with interest to the sources and the character of the means by which this great result was achieved.
