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I thank you for your letter of January 5th, with the Intemperance in Eating as a Source of Poverty and What you have written about the subject of poverty and to trace than those of alcohol, I hardly think it pos- ment of individual character and of creating the legislation should think it very unsafe to make numerical com- Bishop of Tennessee. sible to secure any statistics on the subject, and I not cause as much crime as over-drinking" seems to The question you discuss is of great importance and as you say naturally divides itself in the problem of develop- of environment calculated to encourage such development. Professor Farnam's version, who says that "inasmuch President Eliot's statement that "over-eating does Europe. THOS. F. GAILOR, Crime. Thanking you again for your letter, I am, crime, etc., strikes me as reasonable, and I have no doubt I want to take up some of the points in regard to which the eminent gentlemen differ with me. we might take lessons from conditions which prevail in as the effects of this (bad food) are much more difficult copy of your REVIEW enclosed. parisons." That is practically what I said in the Jan- Most sincerely yours, me somewhat too categorical. I would rather take