the taste or propriety of those methods, there can be no amount of doubt in the mind of any reasonable man that the Salvation Army has been the means of achieving enormous good the whole world over.  In his administration of this huge organization of which himself was the founder, Mr. Booth has proved himself a man of probity and of the strictest possible integrity.  We do not hesitate to say that all the money he requires for this great scheme may be safely placed in his hands, and that he will render a strict account of its disbursement.  Then comes the question, how far is it possible for him to succeed in the work he proposes to undertake?  He has already in the field a vast organization doing good work among the dregs of the population, and the extension of this organization to carry out the main points of his project is not a matter of difficulty.  The ill is a terrible one, the evil gigantic, and the means to grapple with it must be gigantic also.  But given the means, will they be effective?  We frankly confess that we do not believe they will be so effective as General Booth hopes, but we believe at the same time that if he can achieve only one-tenth of what he hopes to achieve, ten millions of pounds would be worthily laid out upon it.  The hungry, the dirty, the ragged, the hopeless and outcast, the criminal and the drunkard, the idle and the vicious—­can he gather all these in with any hope of starting them afresh on the journey of life?  So much work of this kind has already been done without any special system, that there can be little doubt that to a large extent he can.  With the honestly poor it is not a difficult matter, but with the vicious and criminal classes, who have no inclination to work so long as they can steal, it will be a long time before the Salvation Army or any other agency can effect any sweeping reform.  The work will be slow, but we believe it will be done.  It has been objected against General Booth’s scheme that it is not new, except in the fact that General Booth proposes that it shall be himself who carries it out.  It seems to us, on the contrary, that it is new in one most vital aspect, and that is, that its details are to be worked out by an enormous united body on a definite plan, instead of by numberless charitable agencies all working independently of each other.  We believe, in short, that General Booth will meet with a very large measure of success, and we believe also that when the details of his scheme come to be read and discussed, he will have no difficulty in getting all the money he asks for, and more besides.  Looking at the enormous wealth of England, a million pounds is as nothing.  It is the Duke of Westminister’s income for three months, and it would open up the means of finding hope and work and refuge, and a new life beyond the seas, for a million or more of the helpless poor.  We wish Mr. Booth God-speed in his great undertaking.

The “Bombay Gazette” of November 15th, 1890, gives an exhaustive review, from which we cull the following extracts:—­