The report which I presented to the members of the Guild of St. George on the occasion of their first general meeting in 1879 (to be had of Mr. G. Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, price 6d.) contains, in nearly as short compass as I can put them, all particulars respecting the objects and constitution of the Guild which it is necessary for any one to know who may propose to join it; but as the statement there given, though short, is like too much of the rest of my writings, partly declamatory and figurative, I will try to repeat the contents of it now in simpler terms.

The various feelings and convictions under which the project of the Guild was formed by me in 1870 may be partly gathered out of the early numbers of Fors Clavigera. But quite the principal one will only be discerned by very careful readers.

I had long foreseen, with Carlyle, the approach, in connection with the increased force of popular feeling in the Senate, of the troubles in administration of laws respecting land, which have been intensified by the misguided action of the Irish Land League.