by his theorising friend -3. He will fail to lake advantage of his opportunity if he, for instance, disappoints or stifles the desire for settlement by in sisting on the perpetual lease tenure cveu in the case of village settlement. Almost every man who makes his liv ing, or part of his living, out of the fruits of the earth likes to ha\cabit of ground he can call his own. Such a possession is moreover a great stimu les to thrift and industry ; not to say that the laborer should be allowed to gratify his possessory feelings as well as the farmer or large landowner. We should have thought Mr M'Kenzic had too much practical wisdom not to see that the scheme of land nationalisa tion comes too late in the history of the world. It is in fact an attempt to adopt what may have in a rough way suited a primitive unpi ogressive state of society to the complex conditions of modern civilisation. If the honorable gentleman wishes to solve the unem ployed difficulty let him f>c4l land to all and sundry who may wish to buy it, but of course only on strict settle ment conditions. We doubt whether he has the ability for such au under taking ; but we have an idea that the cause of settlement would be promoted by the substitution of a new set of land laws in place of those at present on the Statute Book.
