SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Sake in Ibis column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Judge Parry has amused himself, we are sure, in writing Drink and Industrial Unrest (True Temperance Association, 3d.) and will amuse others, for the little pamphlet is an ingenious eulogy of good ale, with a wonderful array of quotations from Plato, Shakespeare, Jeremy Taylor, Cobbett, Charles Kingsley, Ruskin, and other eminent authors. " Between the brewer and the puritan the respectable working man with a normal thirst has been jockeyed out of his freedom." Judge Parry reminds us that Jonas Hanway, the eccentric who introduced the umbrella into Britain and Who wrote an essay against tea-drinking, stoutly defended the old English habit of drinking beer. Judge Parry plays with the subject, but he is serious in his advocacy of a reform of the lieensinglaws and in his support of the "hopeful experiments " of. the Public. House Trust, or Trust Houses, Limited, as it is now called.
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