written description of the internal arrangement of the rooms. Water is provided on every floor, allowing of the daily consumption per head of eighteen quarts. Each set of apartments has store-closets, with drawers and shelves; a shoot to the dust-hole below, for the refuse, which is removed every day; and the use of a vault under the building. The fire-place in each room is supplied with air from without; and all the partition-walls are of brick, so that one neighbour may not overhear another. On each landing are English waterclosets. Liberty, privacy, and cleanliness, are three of the chief points aimed at in the establishment. "May God aid us, and man be favourable," was M. Godin-Lemaire's invocation, on laying the corner-stone of the building. He desired to give his workmen a home that would raise their self-respect, develope their personal dignity; and he has nobly carried out his desire. Many further advantages, as I have said, are afforded. The wives are enabled to employ some of their time profitably in the general cleaning, apart from that required in their own apartments. A nursery, which he calls the pouponnat, is provided for children from their birth till about two years old; for such mothers as may desire at times to make use of it, a preparatory school (the bambinat), for children between two and five; and a more advanced school for those between five and twelve. The wives and daughters supply the nurses; and a highly-educated young lady, a relative of the proprietor, has the general superintendence of these, and of the school. A visit to her house on Sunday is one of the great rewards of the scholars. The School is carried on by a young professor from Paris. No one is bound to send his children to it, any more than he is bound to live in the establishment. The school and nursery cost the parents nothing, being included in the rent. And now, what is the rent charged for these advantages? The unfurnished apartments are let at the rate of 3s. 9d. per calendar month for each room! A furnished room for a single man, containing an iron bedstead, two mattresses, chairs, table, washhand-stand, slop-pail, looking-glass, two clean towels a-week, the bed-linen changed twice a month, the bed made and room set right every day, costs 6s. 8d. a month. While a separate bed in a dormitory attached can be obtained at one penny a-day!

How then, say those who have built houses for working men, and cottages for their labourers in the country, can any interest at all on capital invested' be obtained, still less 6 per cent. as stated? The solution of the problem would seem to be, at any rate, aided by this; that on the ground floor are retail shops, where, for a sum including a small percentage above the wholesale prices, butchers' meat, vegetables, ready-made clothes, in fact, everything required by the tenants, can be obtained. The workmen are given fully to understand that nothing is gratuitous; they pay for all they have, but through good arrangements get comforts cheap, and yet give the proprietor good interest for his money. I should add that there is a restaurant where the unmarried man can get his meals at the cost of