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The Review of Reviews. 



AMERICAN WOMEN. 



American treatment of women is highly 



spoken of : — , . . 



The woman who "works" is respected in America; 

 she commands a good wage; she apparently proves very 

 efficient without having all the fineness ot her sex driven 

 out of her. She is decently educated, she is not 

 desperately overworked, and she conforms to the 

 American feminine fashion of improving her mind— a 

 fashion which the man admires without imitating. An 

 elderly New England gentleman, whom I revere, in- 

 formed me that American women are freer in their 

 social relations with men than any women m the world, 

 but that their morals are beyond reproach. 



The American University youth is still a boy, 

 free from the unbearable self-consciousness 

 which marks the modern young Englishman 

 between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. 



NEWSPAPER LIBRARIES IN 



NEW YORK. 

 Mr. Frederick C Hicks contributes to the 

 New York Educational Review for September an 

 article on the libraries of some American news- 

 papers. 



MORGUES AND CUTTINGS. 



The most interesting parts of his article relate 

 to the Morgues, or Dead Rooms, and the filing 

 of newspaper cuttings. The preserA^ation of 

 cuttings originated with the necessity of having 

 at hand up-to-date information about eminent 

 people, and the place where these were kept was 

 the workshop of the obituary editor, known as 

 the morgue or dead room. But the value of bio- 

 graphical cuttings soon caused most newspapers 

 to extend the scope of their morgues so as to 

 include cuttings on all other subjects. In some 

 offices biographical cuttings alone are kept in the 

 morgue, and cuttings on other matters in 

 separate departments. Some oflfices keep several 

 copies of the same cutting for filing under severaC 

 headings. The cuttings are usually kept in 

 envelopes, in some cases filed in alphabetical 

 arrangement, in others arranged by number with 

 an alphabetical card-index as key. The latter 

 arrangement is found safer but more cumber- 

 some. In one morgue there are at least one 

 hundred envelopes headed " Roosevelt," and in 

 another items relating to the ex-President fill 

 one hundred and fifty envelopes. 



BORROWING FOR KEEPS. 



One newspaper librar\', which numbers 15,000 

 volumes, is used by 2,000 employees, represent- 

 ing nearly all classes of people. But all agree in 

 this, so it was said : that the rights of the other 

 fellow in the use of the librar}' are of no conse- 

 quence. In this respect the newspaper people 

 were compared to college professors, to whom all 

 books are said to be personal property. Asked 

 why the books on religion in the librar\' outnum- 



bered those on other subjects, the librarian 

 replied: "Newspaper people don't borrow 

 religious books for keeps." 



MR. WOODROW WILSON. 



What His Election Would Mean. 



The North American Review is chiefly occu- 

 pied with the Presidential election. The editor 

 declares the issue is Roosevelt or the Republic. 

 John Hays Hammond explains " Why I am for 

 Taf t " ; Senator Miles Poindexter "Why I am 

 for Roosevelt"; Senator James O'Gorman 

 " Why I am for Wilson." Senator O'Gorman 

 thus sums up his judgment on Mr. Wilson : — 



He has conquered destiny by living an active and 

 upright life, devoting his great talents to the noblest 

 endeavours, and using with courage his vast stores of 

 knowledge to advance truth and strengthen right. He is 

 of the people and for the people, not blatant in dema- 

 gogy, on the one hand, nor content with the comforts of 

 a meaningless life on the other; but ever working, ever 

 moving to the advancement of progress towards high 

 ideals of government. He believes in political organ- 

 isations. He believes organised effort is essential in 

 every human activity. As profound in his simplicity as 

 was Jefferson, he is as simple in his greatness as was 

 Lincoln. 



In his administration of the Government there will be 

 no scandals; there may be differences of opinion or 

 judgment as to his plans and methods, but he will never 

 fail in the nation's respect. Guided by his purest prin- 

 ciples, his walk will be stately and his course true. 

 He will give to the great office the dignity of Jefferson, 

 the courage of Jackson, and surround it with the kindly 

 gentleness that marked the administration of Lincoln. 

 His election will, in my opinion, mean a new era, an era 

 of clean politics, of wholesome laws, of equality in 

 rights and burdens, of pure statesmanship, of the best 

 service from representatives of the people to the people. 

 Thus will the blessings of free government be secured 

 for ourselves and our posterity. 



AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. 



A descriptive account of the Olympic Games 

 without an equal is contained in The Blue Book. 

 The writer has a happy touch, and can make 

 what he has seen live again before the eyes of 

 the reader. After describing Stockholm and the 

 various people gathered there for the Games, 

 he says most of the discussions one heard centred 

 about the American team : — 



The Americans carried off the honours of the meet- 

 ing, as everyone knew they would — they had the men, 

 the money, and the methods. They brought over a 

 shipload of perfectly-trained athletes and made a strong 

 bid for first, second, and third in every event for which 

 they entered. On several occasions they took all three 

 places — three American flags ran up the flagpoles sidt 

 by side. Invariably they came up to expectations, for 

 the team was a well-rounded unit, not a mere collection 

 of brilliant individual performers. If one "star" 

 failed half a dozen of his countrymen crowded each 

 other for his place. Only an occasional phenomenon 

 like Kohlemainen or Jackson or the Greek jumper with 

 an unpronounceable name could upset their confident 

 calculations. Contrary to British Press theories, the 

 Americans were neither specialists nor professionals. 



