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Catholicism, and that thib is buffiriont explnnation of 

 the rooted hatred of Catholicism which animates the 

 children of the Revolution. Ethel M. de Fonhlanque 

 traces the Italian sources of " Othello." Mr. Belfort 

 llax screams wildly against woman as " the creature 

 of privilege," and after arguing that already the law 

 and the Courts give woman an unfair advantage, 

 declares that the SuftVagists' aim is "the conversion 

 of the female sex into a dominant si'x-riMasf." Mr. 

 Charles McEvoy argues that the intellectual modern 

 drama is a business proposition in London, as it hns 

 proved itself elsewhere, in spite of shallow ron- 

 ventional criticisms to the contrary. The nuniher 

 opens with a ballad by Thomas Hardy entitled " The 

 Sacrilege," which sheds strange light on the ethics of 

 the caravan-dwellers. Mr. Herbert Trench also con- 

 tributes " A Bitter Serenade." 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER. 



ENGLAND, FR.AXCE, AND GEI5MANY. 



.Mr. E. D. Morel, writing on the Franco-German 

 Dispute, argues that it will never do to interpret the 

 Franco-British entente as a shield under which Fren<h 

 ambitions can move to attain an end which may not 

 work out ultimately to Great Britain's interests. \\x- 

 must realise that what Germany wants is not colonic-; 

 of German peoples oversea, but markets, for whic h 

 >he is bound to fight, even as England used to do ; 

 and she will be right in fighting for them if they are 

 denied her, even as iMigland was right. 



Mr. J. H. Whitehouse, M.P., makes various pro- 

 posals for bringing about better relations between 

 Britain and Germany, among them that Parliament 

 •-hould have much more voice in the discussion of 

 the broad principles of our foreign policy, and that 

 we should be no longer brought to the verge of wnr 

 without any influence having had play outside a small 

 circle of diplomatists. He also advocates an exchange 

 of visits between the members of the British Parlia- 

 ment and the German Reichstag. Worse relations 

 existed not long ago between Great Britain and 

 Russia and also France than the relations between 

 her and Germany to-day. 



THE FUTURE HOUSE OF LORD.S. 



Mr. Charles F. Mallett, writing of " Liberals and 

 the House of Lords Reform," argues that an elective 

 House of Lords may not be the best, for a House 

 is wanted diflTerent in origin and characteristics 

 from the House of Commons. Now that the ])Owers 

 of the House of Lords are definitely limited, Liberals, 

 he think';, might well agree to a larger proportion 

 of hereditary Peers and fewer life Peers, which 

 would give a House of Lords of undiminished 

 (irestige and enhanced character, but with fewer 

 weaknesses and encumbrances. 



INDIA AND CHINA. 



Sir Bampfylde Fuller, in his paper " Fast and 

 West," lays stress on the fact that in the East service 

 must be left to servants, so that the charge of help- 

 lessness levelled against the .Anglo-Indian has many 



excuses. On the other hand, the desire for increased 

 comfort and more possessions is not as powerful 

 in the East as in the West. A man with a surplus 

 income either hoards it or spends it on othe-s. I'his 

 state of affairs, however, is now changing. 4116 

 Oriental has a care for bis personal dignity which 

 to the Westerner is inexplicable, and on ceremonial 

 occasions, such as marriages, he spends an amount 

 out of all proportion to his income. Of course 

 .\Vest(Tn ideas are penetrating the East, but the 

 writer seems to think that only very slowly will 

 ihey reach below the surface and really affect the 

 mass of the people. 



Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, 

 writes an interesting article, topical just now, describ- 

 uig a journey up the West River, China. It is 

 ditlicult to summarise, however. Professor Noniian 

 Pearson writes a distressing paper on " The Idle 

 Poor," the unnumbered and hopelessly lazy and 

 demoralised paupers of England, who, he says, are 

 the real burden on the industrious poor and the 

 community in general, and not the abused " idle rich,'' 

 who at least support themselves, anil are often not 

 idle at all. 



A WONDERFUL CENIURV. 



Sir Walter Gilbey gives his " Recollections of 

 Seventy Years." The greatest boons to the multitude, 

 among recent inventions, he considers to be motors 

 and bicycles. He can recall the use of dogs for 

 draught-work, prohibited in London in 1839, but 

 remaining legal in the country for another fifteen 

 years. He well remembers the numbers of dog- 

 carriages and carts on the Essex lanes and high roads. 

 .Ml sorts and conditions of men used dog-carriages, 

 from small tradesnien to poorer people who could 

 not afford a pony. Dog-draught was abolished 

 because certain people agitated against it as cruel, 

 but the writer thinks that as a rule the dogs were 

 not ill-treated nor overworked. Sir Walter Gilbey 

 remembers the dying-out of coaches and the antipathy 

 to railways, which was not so unreasonable, perhaps, 

 since the third-class ''carriages" were cattle-pens, 

 the permanent way ill laid, and the trains wretchedly 

 lit. livery action of his life, he says, now suggests a 

 change from the days of his youth. Truly last 

 century was, he thinks, a " wonderful century." 



.Miss Edith Sellers writes of the feeling of patriotism 

 as manifested in this country and elsewhere, her 

 point being that the sentiment in many ways is wi ak 

 in us. She specially refers to the pride taken by the 

 Swiss, Roumanians, and other nations in being in the 

 army and fit for military service. The Swiss do most 

 of the drilling, and also most of the rifle practice, on 

 .Sunday, for they see no reason why young men should 

 loaf on that day. There are several other articles 

 worth reading in the niaga/ino. 



Tim Windsor Magazine contains an article on the 

 life and work of the sculptor John Tweed, with 

 illustrations of his chief works. 



