MILK

will not travel, even when frozen and, therefore, foreign competition is more or le eliminated; from the fresh-milk trade, though foreign cheese and butter are very formidable rivals of home products. The increasing use of Machinery (q.ti.), cheapne foreign flour, social and educational advantages, and other causes are drawing the ma of population into the large towns to such an extent that twenty-five towns now contain about one-third of the total population of the United Kingdom. For this huge city population the M. supply is miserably deficient— tiny country like Holland, only one-tenth the size the United Kingdom, having at least 4,000,000 more milch kine than we have. At the same time, gallons of Ml go bad, unused, every week because the price is beyond the ma of the poor. If private enterprise cannot supply sweet, good milk •heap enough lor every poor family in the country to have a little every Hay, the State will have to step in; and, if does, le water will be used in the dairy industry, and some 4 old M. + a little carbonate of magnesia’ will cease to be sold as new M, mist, was born in 1806. He entered on a course of political economy at the age of fourteen, having previously studied Greek, Latin, Euclid, and Algebra since he was eight. From 1835 to 1840 he principally he published "A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive,” and in 1848 “Principles of Political Economy," his two chief works. He also wrote “Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform," “UtilitaM.P. for Westminster he advocated a measure to ” Mill a is, Sir John, the painter, was born m 1829. the; He exhibited his first picture in 1846, “ Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru," ana received a gold medal in 1848 for 44 The Tribe of Benjamin seizing the Daughters of Shiloh'.’’ Others of Ins works are “ Mariana at the Moated Grange," “The Huguenot Lovers," “Ophelia," “Effie Deans," “ St. Bartholomew's Day,” etc. He succeeded Lord Leighton as President of the Royal Academy. 1802. His first publication came out in 1829, entitled “Poems Written in the Leisure Hours of a Journeyman Mason”; and in 1835 he published a prose volume, 44 Scenes and Legends of Cromarty"; out was 44 The Old Red Sandstone," which established his reputation. He also wrote “Footsteps of the Creator," 44 My Schools and Schoolmasters," “E ays Historical and Critical," “Rambles of a Geologist," and 44 The Testimony of the Rocks,” in which he tried to reconcile the Mosaic account of the creation M. with the teachings of geology. Having just finished this work, he shot himself in 1856. received the Newdegate prize for an English poem on the Apollo Belvidere; he published “Fazio,” a tragedy performed at Covent Garden Theatre, and fe or of Poetry at Oxford in 1821-31, ana was (a legendary poem), “The Fall of Jerusalem," “The Martyr of Antioch," 44 History of the Jews," etc., and 44 Annals of St. Paul’s Cathedral." At Cambridge he excelled in Latin verse and English composition, and while there he wrote “ On the the Death of a Fair Infant," 44 On Shakespeare,” etc. Then he spent six years in retirement, studying cla ical literature, philosophy, mathematics, and Penseroso," the beautiful monody of “ Lycidas" (in memory ofhis college friend, Edward King), and the masque of 44 Comus." In 1641-42 he wrote some polemical treatises, and sketched his “Paradise Lost." In connection with his divorce pamphlets, written