Working philanthropy is a practical specialty, requiring not a mere impulse, but a talent, with its peculiar sagacity for finding its objects, a tact for selecting its agencies, an organizing and arranging faculty, a steady set of nerves, and a constitution such as Sallust describes in Catiline, patient of cold, of hunger, and of watching.

Oh, Philanthropy, are thy protestations, then, all void and empty, and are thy noblest sentimentsevery one of 'emso full of sound and rhetoric, so specious, so delectableare these, then, but dicers' oaths!" Aloud, "I'm rather surprised, you know," he said, slowly, "that you take it just this way, Mrs. Haggage.

Oh, Philanthropy, are thy protestations, then, all void and empty, and are thy noblest sentimentsevery one of 'emso full of sound and rhetoric, so specious, so delectableare these, then, but dicers' oaths!" Aloud, "I'm rather surprised, you know," he said, slowly, "that you take it just this way, Mrs. Haggage.

He is, to judge from his book, a good man, one who is not so willing as the majority of us, to let his philanthropy remain "Like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall;" and we hope the forcible positions of the truths he has here inculcated, will bestir others from their laxity.

Philanthropy is a beautiful thing in its way, but it must be done by people who like itit is useless if it is done in a grim and self-penalising way.

The highest philanthropy is but a scientific renewal and adaptation of work which has had its start, primarily, in the Christian Church.