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COMMONS AND SOCIALISM.

SIR A. MOND'S ANALYSIS

A recent debate in the House of Com- Boas on the Labour Socialist motion in Invent of the nationalisation of industry and hanking proceeded on curiously fami har lines. Mr. Windsor's resolution in- rited the House to declare that no permanent solution of the problem of working-class conditions was possible apart from progressive advances to wards the social ownership and democratic control of staple industries and the bank- "Sheb wording, though loose secure the support of all

Thus wrote Dickens in The Uneon- mevial Traveller," and the words mighting system." be uttingly applied to the novelist himnough to self and to it. Walter Dexter, who has sections of Labour-Socialists, derived more import "than usual hy reason of the followed so faithfully in his footsteps, fact that it committed them not less to Wherever Dickens, has gone he has gone: wherever the novelist stayed he has stay the end than to the means. Such "pro- as we may look for ed, noting all the topographical reints of Fressive advances. interest that gave such colour and verisi-front future Socialist Governments will militude to the stories. Having covered have in future to be delended for what the London of Dickens" and The they are definite steps towards the goal Kent of Dickens Mr. Dexter goes far of a totally Socialised system of industry. ther afield-to all parts of the country where Dickens either visited or which are mentioned in his books. Mr Dexter clains, that the England of Dickens' is a country of actuality as of romance; and Dickens knew his England fairly thoroughly. And he inakes good that elain..

What strikes the reader mest is the amazing energy of the man. Dickens was no rich leisurely traveller passing here

He was and there for amusement.

The terms of the resolution did not in- spire its over or secunder to any great heights of rhetorical effect. There was much insistence on the inevitability of the class struggle, with or without the sa beloved of Mr. Sidney gradualness Wehh. There could be no peace in our time, declared Mr. Windsor, in the pre- sense of existing economic conditions, agregations of wealth on the one side. and pauperiam and hemployment on the other in this Mr. Duanico, the member for Consett, agreed, though he recognised bandsomely the worth of the recent appeal of the Prime Minister.

novelist earning his living by his pen, turging out books which on the lowest escimate are monuments of annual in

The lessons of Russia provided Lieu-| dustry, for the typewriter was not in use, yet he found time for innumeraide trips tenant-Colonel Spender Clay with an nad tours, The impressionable part, of adequate text for his speech in submitting. his knowledge was gained by coaching, the Unionist amendment calling for en-" when he travelled as a reporter into terprise and co-operation in securing a Suffolk and Devonshire tatake" elee satisfactory competitive footing in world very much up tion speeches He had holiday jaunts markets. Labour was

seven tae actual facts of a with Phiz into Yorkshire, and then against through the Midlands into Wales and years' experiment there, he said." Lancashire with Forster. Inclise and. Clever and entertaining was the second. Stanfield he visited the west of Englanding speech of Major Stanley, the Earl of te was a constant visitor over' of sears to various seaside resorts and between his novel-writing, and his editing he would spatebinck a reading-a dis tant part of the country on beatif of a working man's institution," or later reading on his own behalf. At the end of a weary day's traveling he would sit down and write letters to his family and friends fall of quaint observations of life: and character, often as rich as the finest pages of his novels.

period

When his eldest son, Charles, was at Eton. Dickens must fain take him and three of his schoolfellows down the river gipsying. And he must needs write a long letter to Mrs. Watson, telling her of the adventures of the day. How he was accompanied by twa" immense ham- pers, and how they picked up a sunburnt gentleman known as Mahoguny to go with them down stream,

We dined in a field; what I suffered for fear those hoys 'should get drunk, contest the struggles. I underwent in

of feeling between bospitality, and prudénce, must over reluain untold, feel, even now, old with the anxiety of that tremendous hour. They were very good, however. The speech of one he came thick, and bis eyes too lice lobs. ters' to he comfortable, but only tem- porarily. He recovered, and I suppose outlived the saintl he took. I have heard nothing to the contrary, and I imagine I should have been implicated in the inquest if there, Ead been ent. We had tea and rashers of bacon at a public-house, and came home, the st five or six miles in a prodigious thur- derstorm. This was the great succesA of the day which they certainly enjoyed more than anything else The dinner had been great, and Mahogany had informed them, after a bottle of light champagne, that he never would come up the river with ginger company any Inore,

The passage, in its boisterousness, kind lines, love of eating and drinking, and exaggeration, is truly Pickwickian, and yet it is all contained in a letter thrown off as easily us slipping on a piece of organe-peel.

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Mr. Dexter takes us on twelve tours, First we go along the old royal Dover road, with memories of the Pickwickians and of the characters in "Edwin Drood," not forgetting Dickens's own associations with Godshill Next we are off, on" birthday pilgrimage to Portsmouth. A acnside tour round the coast from Broad- stairs to Shanklin fills the next chapter. and a further chapter is taken up with the upper, waters of the Thames. Mr. Pielewick at Bath must have a chapter to himself so too must Little Nell and ber grandfather ere they come to rest wh

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Derby's second son, who called for a sight of the Secialistic magic wand which was going to provide State-owned enterprises with the markets for which they pined un- der private control. Socialism, he said. might produse temporarily a State of high wages and an illusion of prosperity. but it would be done out of national enpital, and pot out of national income. The real goal of Conservatism was a pro- perty-owning democracy.

The ruthless vivisection of the Socialist anatomy was completed by Sir Alfred Mond, who is most genial when engaged in this, his favourite debating occupation. Talking to the Socialists at close quarters from the third sea below the gangway, he very soon had them laughing in spite of themselves at his picture of guild So- cialism in operation, with the commvanity Anding the money while the miners ran their industry and drew the profits. Equally amusing was his innocent query. ont dividing up the surplus profits. of the Post Office.

Mr. Wheatley wound up the debate for the Labour-Socialists with what was For him a goderately-wered speech. The Goverment front bench, true to the Prime Minister's conception of private members' rights, did not participate in debate, which concluded with a defeat of the resolution by 181 votes to 124...

and which must come at last to the river. This necessitated amazing gym- nastica in the course, of which per- formances, Collins fell into the said watercourse with his ankle sprained. and the great ligament of the foot swollen I don't know how big i The nearest inn was cleven miles away, and thither Collins had to be carried, to hare his foot wrapped up in a flannel and a horrible dabbling of waistedat," lotion intessantly in progress.

There was some trouble about their letters, but Dickens solved the dificulty in a manner especially his own, by walking over for then to Maryport and back, a distance of 24 miles all told! By awkward stages the journey was continued, and Wilkie Collin's got gradually better, until, tiring of the and the equally eternal eternal sea shrimps at Allenby, they cune by rail to Carlisle, and thence to Lancaster where an Inn where they give he put up at you Bride cake every day after dinner." Collins's ankle-

is a great deal better than it was, and be ein get into new hotels and up the stairs with two thick sticks, like u admiral in farce.

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Toak; and less space cannot be given Mr. Dexter says that he offers no apology with justice to the Copperfield country, for this, the third and final volume on the the Botheloys route to Yorkshire and the English, topograpay of Dickens. No apo

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This 1 lazy tour is far too little some within our ked: it will serve to de- known, even-to professed admirere of light those who knew Dickens by

heart." Dickens. It came about in a rush, and number to lake certainly inspire a or another, of he, and Wilkie Collins set out on a ten day tour of the Lake District in search the pilgrimages which the novelist took, of an article" "lor Household Words to the lasting benefit of English literature Carlisle was the starting point, and and the happiness of mankind. thence they passed by way of Carrack Fell Wigton, Maryport, Aspatria, Allenby and Lancaster, to Leeds. To his sister-in-law he writes a long letter, although the Charlie Chaplin was the chief witness ordinary man would have waited until he

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