: Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin John - Social sciences; Working class Great Britain

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THE EXPENSES FOR ART AND FOR WAR.

Omitting the seven shillings, and even the odd hundred-thousands of pounds, the net annual expenditure for army and navy appears to be twenty-four millions.

THE CORRUPTION OF MODERN PLEASURE.--

You know, the upper classes, most of them, want to be amused all day long. They think

I ask the reader's thoughtful attention to this paragraph, on which much of what else I have to say depends.

Presently after this, came on the forty thieves, who, as I told you, were girls; and, there being no thieving to be presently done, and time hanging heavy on their hands, arms, and legs, the forty thief-girls proceeded to light forty cigars. Whereupon the British public gave them a round of applause. Whereupon I fell a thinking; and saw little more of the piece, except as an ugly and disturbing dream.

THE CORRUPTION OF MODERN PLEASURE.--

Appendix 2.

Both on Thursday and Friday last I had been tormented by many things, and wanted to disturb my course of thought any way I could. I have told you what entertainment I got on Friday, first, for it was then that I began meditating over these letters; let me tell you now what entertainment I found on Thursday.

Now, lastly, in illustration of the effect of these and other such "amusements," and of the desire to obtain them, on the minds of our youth, read the 'Times' correspondent's letter from Paris, in the tenth page of the paper, to-day; and that will be quite enough for you to read, for the present, I believe.

Appendix 3.

OF THE VARIOUS EXPRESSIONS OF NATIONAL FESTIVITY.

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