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The Review of Reviews. 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 

 AND AFTER. 



Some four articles have been separately men- 

 tioned. 



Mr. Wadham Peacock puts in a plea for the 

 Montenegrin king to be the Tsar of the United 

 Servian Empire, with Scutari as its capital. 



Professor Caldwell gives a British Canadian's 

 view of the situation in the home country. It 

 is simply a thorough-going plea for Tariff 

 Reform. 



Sir Roper Lethbridge, by quotation from 

 Giraldus Cambrensis, maintains that the Welsh 

 endowments were not, as Liberal chiefs have 

 declared, imposed by law and Parliament, but 

 was the genuine voluntary act of the Welsh 

 people. 



Mr. D. C. Lathbury insists that it is the duty 

 of Churchmen to claim liberty of disestablish- 

 ment at once, in order that they may, amongst 

 other things, be true to their witness concerning 

 the Christian law of marriage, the Church of 

 England having made no effective protest 

 against the House of Lords in the Bannister 

 case. 



Mr. J. A. R. Marriott writes on Syndicalism 

 and Socialism, chiefly to warn the Anglican 

 bishops and their following from espousing the 

 cause of Labour. 



The Solid South is set forth by Mr. D. L. 

 Dorroh, writing from South Carolina as rejoic- 

 ing now in her consciousness of separate 

 nationality. He says there is a nationalism of 

 the southern people in the United States as dis- 

 tinct as the nationalism of the Irish in the United 

 Kingdom, and becoming as proud as the 

 nationalism of the Magyars and Huns in the 

 Austrian Empire, and that there is thus gene- 

 rating a wholly new force in American politics. 



Sir Charles Mackellar tells how the State of 

 New South Wales looks after its neglected chil- 

 dren. The salient feature of the system is the 

 power to release the child criminal to his parents 

 on probation, and in the great majority of cases 

 that is the course adopted. 



" A Ghost of the Living " is the title given 

 by Mr. Wilfrid Ward to evidence advanced of 

 the " double." He says that his own ghost, or 

 his double, was seen by his relations all at once 

 at Eastbourne, and he thinks there are several 

 instances well authenticated of people having 

 seen living friends who were at a distance. He 

 gives the written narrative of the Rev. Mr. 

 Spencer Nairn. 



" Just as the Duke of Roxburghe's sale in 

 1812 stands as the genesis of modern book- 

 collecting, so the Hoe sale in New York and the 

 Huth sale in London may be regarded as its 



revelation." That is the text of a paper on 

 recent book sales by Mr. W. Roberts. 



Francis Gribble gives an account of Boswell's 

 flirtation with a Dutch lady, who afterwards 

 married M. de Charri^re and became a well- 

 known authoress. 



THE ENGLISH REVIEW. 



Perhaps the most serious paper in the Novem- 

 ber number is that by Lisle March Phillips. The 

 writer declares that with the opening of the 

 land and housing question the main action be- 

 tween the two parties commences, and it will 

 take the whole Liberal strength. At present 

 the Liberal Party is becoming enslaved to 

 mechanism, but " Mr. Lloyd George may yet 

 save the party." And, handled the right way, 

 the land question would resuscitate the Liberal 

 Party. But the people must be consulted. The 

 peasantry must be made to feel its significance. 

 The measure must be the outcome of the national 

 will. Will Mr. Lloyd George go to the people, 

 arouse them, lead them? This is his oppor- 

 tunity, the test of his greatness — the tide taken 

 at the flood. 



Mr. S. M. Murray contrasts higher education 

 in Scotland, where it has never been preserved 

 for the wealthy, and the nation has gained enor- 

 mously by exploiting the brains of those that 

 were fit, with the English tradition. England 

 must_ be shocked out of her foolish self- 

 suflficiency, for what was bad in the 19th cen- 

 tury is dangerous in the 20th. 



Mr. Austin Harrison traces in Strindberg's 

 works his autobiography. The significance and 

 office of Strindberg in his day was diagnosis 

 and purification. He lacked the calm necessar}' 

 to philosophic reflection. He paid the penalty 

 of all universality. No man ever wrote with 

 more splendid honesty. He was ever an artist 

 and prophet as well. 



Mr. P. P. Howe writes a humorous article 

 applying the principles of Malthus to the pro- 

 duction of books. 



Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith supplies a charm- 

 ing philological study of English sea-terms, 

 tracing whence they have come, from Greek, 

 Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and American 

 sources. 



An appreciative notice of Dean Gregory, by 

 Mr. James Britten, Secretary of the Catholic 

 Truth Society, appears in the Dublin Revieiv. 

 Dean Gregory is pronounced a consistent fol- 

 lower of the via media of the earlv Oxford 

 movement. He accomplished the ambition of 

 his life in making St. Paul's Cathedral the centre 

 of the religious life of the metropolis. 



