12 SEPTEMBER 1891, page 19

Professor Brentano On The Labour Question.* It May, As Mr.

Sherman observes—nay, it should—cause sur- prise that we must go to Germany for the best account of English Trade-Unions, contained in that really great work Die Arbeitergilden......

A Summer Idyll.* Was There Ever Yet A Drag-net With

no dropped stitches, or rents here and there big enough to let a good fish through ? We doubt it. At any rate, we have to own that here is a very bright fish which has escaped......