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The total value of the oil has risen from £2^\,o']'j in 1909, to /i, 218, 316 in 

 191 8. The amount of oil obtained from the various whales has been esti- 

 mated to be roughly forty barrels from M. nodosa, fifty or more from B. phy- 

 salns, and anything up to one hundred barrels from B. musculus, the blue 

 whale. There should also be about a ton of guano to every five barrels of 

 oil, but the whalebone is now of less value than it used to be. Seals, sea 

 elephants, etc., are also hunted for oil. Col. St.-Johnston describes the con- 

 stitution and laws of the colony, the amusements of the people, and gives 

 some brief notes on the natural history and geology. Altogether an excellent 

 little book. R. R, 



The Rising Tide of Colour against White World- Supremacy. By Lothrop 

 Stoddard, A.M., Ph.D., with an Introduction by Madison Grant, 

 Chairman of the New York Zoological Society. [Pp. xxxii + 310.] 

 (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.) 



If one was to tell the ordinary man in the street that, to-day, the coloured 

 races were threatening White world-supremacy, one would in all probability 

 be laughed at for one's pains. Nevertheless the author of this most interesting 

 book, interesting whether you believe in it or not, seems firmly to believe that 

 the relations between the primary races of mankind is the first political 

 problem of the twentieth century. Nor does his belief appear to be unfounded, 

 as he is prepared to prove. 



An admirable summary of the biological and historical aspects of the case 

 is furnished in the Introduction by Mr. Madison Grant, in which he points 

 out how very nearly, in times gone past, has Europe been dominated by 

 Asiatics, whether Mongols under Attila, Jenghiz, or Bajazet, or Arabs under 

 Othman. In all these invasions it seems only that the Teutonic, or Nordic, 

 peoples of Europe were able to turn the tide of Asiatic invasion at Chalons, 

 Wahlstatt, Tours, or Vienna. The siege of Vienna was only two hundred 

 and forty years ago, and Asiatic irruptions into Europe had lasted for more 

 than twelve hundred years. Why, then, should we believe Asia to be in- 

 capable of fresh aggrandisement if Europe were torn, as she is now, by fratri- 

 cidal strife ? In the first chapter of the book Mr. Stoddard points out that, 

 although the greater portion of the world is under White control, nevertheless 

 the coloured races outnumber the whites by two to one, and are increasing 

 more rapidly. He goes on to describe the habitat of the Yellow Races, their 

 aspirations, and their desire for expansion, the last of which is necessary for 

 their very existence. He points out that, while the surplus Chinese popula- 

 tion could be allowed to flow to the East Indies, Central Asia, and Indo- 

 China, the Japanese colonist cannot stand tropical heat, or even moderate 

 cold, so that the natural outlets for Japanese migration lie in White-men's 

 lands — California, temperate Latin America, and Australia ; and bitter 

 feeling is therefore caused in Japan by the laws excluding the Japanese from 

 entrance into those regions. 



Brown-man's land is Southern Asia and Northern Africa, and their great 

 bond is Islam, though Mohammedanism is only professed by one-fifth of 

 the inhabitants of India. There are, of course, immense numbers of anti- 

 Europeans in every Brown country ; but the author seems to consider that, 

 once White pressure on the Brown World was relaxed, there would be no need 

 to fear Brown aggression, as the various races would fly at one another's 

 throats, as of yore. 



On the other hand, Mr. Stoddard regards the Black races as being an en- 

 tirely passive factor unless converted to Islam, when they would be used by 

 the heads of that religion for their own ends. 



The Red race is the least numerous of the coloured peoples. It forms 

 the greater part of the population of " Latin America " with the exception 



