Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 36: A Monthly Review; July-December, 1894 However, the inadequacy of the Report as a diagnosis of the industrial situation is no proof of its worthlessness. We in England are well accustomed to see excellent practical proposals issuing from imperfect analyses and confused arguments. The practical man will not dally long with the ao-called review of the facts, opinions, and arguments, ' but will turn at once to the positive proposals of the Com missioners. His heart will rejoice to find no fewer than seventeen pages headed Recommendations.' Here at last he will expect to find solid ground beneath his feet. But as he reads paragraph after paragraph each cooled down by the same ominous phraseology of depreciation, he begins to wonder whether the Commissioners will ever find any reform which has their sympathy. Upon the whole we do not find ourselves able to recommend is the efi'ect of nearly every paragraph of these ao-called Recommendations.' Here and there, however, a crumb of positive proposal does reward those who have patience to wade through eighty, mainly negative, paragraphs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.