...thirty years' observation as a journalist— dramatically portrays some of those things that man may be and man may do without transgressing a single statute...Reviewing the work, the author remarks that no possible preventative can be devised for nine-tenths of the wrongs done within these realms other than by the...

...those things man may be or man may do. Dissimulation is a necessary part of the dishonourable, and no possible preventive can be devised for nine-tenths of the wrongs done other than by the cultivation of the individual sense of honourable obligation. A vote of thanks to...