A SHORT NARRATIVE OF A MODEL TEMPERANCE TOWN. BY J. EWING RITCHIE. AUTHOR OF “THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LONDON;” “NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON,” ETC.  ETC. London: WILLIAM TWEEDIE & CO., LIMITED, 337, STRAND. 1876. Decorative graphic of The Gresham Press, London & Chilworth UNWIN BROTHERS, PRINTERS. Bessbrook and its Linen Mills...

That the times in which we live are out of joint is a truism too obvious to require comment.  As much now as in old days the cry is, “Who will show us any good?”  We hear much of modern progress; but there are many who, like Mr. Froude, intimate that what we call progress is in reality merely change, and that change is not necessarily always for the better.  When such men as Mr. Ruskin leave the domain of the beautiful fiercely to arraign what in our wisdom, or want of it, we term Political Econ