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The Review of Reviews. 



February $0, 1906. 



GERMANY AND MACEDONIA. 

 Victor Berard discusses the question of William II. 

 ;iiul Macedonia. He writes in effect: — 



Whatever may lie the sorrows of the hour and the dan- 

 gers of to-morrow, the year 1905 will Dot close without 

 [laving accomplished great things for the benefit of hu- 

 manity, in history, perhaps, it will take its place among 

 the new eras, a Ion- with 1739 and 1848. Before its close it 

 gives us in a Anal tableau the fleets of Europe advancing 

 against Abdul Efamid, the ships of the whole of Europe 

 except those of William II. Nothing could symbolise bet- 

 ter. I believe, the changes produced by the year 1905. 



Superior, and, bo to speak, supremely superior, are the 

 people of the Hohensollern. All the iest are inferior, but 

 in various degrees; for from the negro ol colonial torture, 

 and the yellow race for economic penetration, to the 

 Bohenzollern representing God, the white men and the 

 white nation.- repiesent different degrees of ignominy, 

 honour, or splendour, according to the amount of hostility. 

 goodwill, or servility which they have Bhown to the Ma- 

 ll ie Slavs occupy a low position in his esteem, becausi 

 they have always produced the most valiant enemies, or 

 the least resigned victims oi the Hohenzollet n 



To despise the Slav, to rob him. to oppress him never to 

 come to his aid, but to excite and arm his enemies, is the 

 lesson which has been taught m I'esth by Berlin. 



As a result of the combination of Turkey. Hungary. An- 

 and Germany, the m08t visible result is the ruin of M 

 (Ionia; but there is also another result equally clear- 

 namely, the acquis i tii t wealth by the Prussian financiers 



and merchants. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Although various aspects of religious life in England 

 have been at different times depicted by various 



writers, that pari of Australian life is, up to this time, 

 a neglected field. A credit aide attempt has been made 

 to open the field bj Mis- Tilly Aston, who writes a 

 series of interesting sketches illustrating the vagaries 

 of Church members at an imaginary village of 



Wollinap. She has succeeded very well in her work, 

 and without exaggeration, but in a quiet, interesting 

 way. lias depicted the jealousies, helps, hindrances and 

 predominant characteristics of a secluded circle of 

 Methodists. Religious life in circumscribed areas 

 necessarily takes on some interesting forms, and from 

 our own personal knowledge of the littleness, and also 

 the bigness, of different natures which is brought out 

 prominently through the everlasting contact of the 

 same people with each other, Miss Aston has done her 



work exceedingly well. She has not strained after 

 effect, hut ha- told her Story in a very interesting 

 fashii u. We sincerely hope that this will not be her 

 la.st effort of the kind. As her first is so creditable. 

 -he should find a splendid field lor her talents in the 

 pai icnlar one she has chosen tor her first essay. The 

 hook, the title ot which is ••The •* Woollinappeis," is 

 published by the Spectator Publishing Company ai Is. 



Messrs. Angus and Robertson (Sydney) send us two 

 nicely-got-up volumes <>t poems. One is a collection of 

 the late Mr. John KarreH's productions, the title of one 

 of them, " How He Died." giving the title to the hook. 

 This volume will lie very acceptable to the admirers 

 of the deceased poet. 'Idle other is a collection ol 

 Australian poems, and is entitled "The Old Hush 

 Songs," composed and sung in the bushrauging, dig- 

 ging ami overlanding day-. It is edited by Mr. 

 \ B Paterson. The preface says: "The object of the 

 pre-eiit publication is to gather together all the old 



bush songs that are worth remembering." The former 



is published at ">s.. and the latter at 2-. 6d. Messrs. 



Angus and Robertson are to be congratulated on their 

 patrio ie enterprise; and on the excellence of the pro- 

 duction from a printer's point of view. 



Messrs. Melville and Mullen semi us •• Haunted by the 

 Ghosts," h\ .1. Lothian Robson. 



DR. CLIFFORD'S WEEK-DAY AND SUNDAY. 



Mr. VV. Mudie Smith contributes to the Fret 

 Cfturchman of Januan the following account of Dr. 



Clifford's day : — 



On week-day-, as a rule, the doctor rises at 7.30, though 

 there are exceptions. For instance, if he has been late 

 in retiring to rest he will remain in bed until alter break- 

 fast, but for our s|>ecimeu day we will presume he has 

 got to lied the previous night by 11 o'clock. After a bath 

 and a few minutes at hi- exerciser comes breakfast, during 

 which meal lie glances at his correspondence — alwa: - 

 heavy Item— and looks at the newspapers. Breakfast over, 

 lie retires to his study, where he remains until 12.20. answer- 

 ing letters, preparing his sermons for the following Sunday, 

 his speech for some public meeting the same evening, or 

 some article for the Press. At 1220 he sallies forth for his 

 " constitutional " in Kensington Gardens, armed with a 

 volume or a review, in case be should feel inclined to 

 read. His sermonettes for the children, which take the 

 place of a second lesson in the service at Westbourne Park 

 Church, are generally indebted to these walks, many an 

 inimitable parable being suggested bv the birds or the 

 flowers, the buds or the trees. Dinner at 1 o'clock is fol- 

 lowed by a nap, and on waking, the doctor, provided he 

 lias no public meeting away from London in the evening, 

 out to visit the sick members of his Church: the 

 healthy he expects to visit him. The evening invariably 

 brings with it at least one meeting; probably two or 

 three. If these are no srreat distance away Dr. Clifford 

 will be back home at about 11 p.m., and after the lightest 

 • >f suppers and the openinsr of the letters which have 

 arrived since his departure, he " turns in." 



On Sundays Dr. Clifford is in his study soon after 8, and 

 remains there until 10.45. when be goes to bis vestry 



After the morn ins service comes dinner at 1 o'clock, then 

 a sleep, and following the sleep a visit to one of the rive 

 Sunday schools in connection with "Westbourne Park 



Church, with a " look-in " at the P.8.A. on the way home. 

 Tea fiver, he returns again to his study, and at 5.45 leaves 

 for the evening service. At the close he remains in his 

 vestry as long as is necessary in order to see any who 

 wi-h to talk to him on matters pertaining to the spiritual 

 life At about 9.15 the Doctor goes downstairs to the 

 Sunday Evening "Social.' - which begins immediately the 

 evening service is concluded. Once a month lie submits 

 to be publicly catechised. On the remaining Sunday even- 

 ing be fraternises with his young people, and at ten 

 minutes to ten he conducts family praters, and thus brings 

 the social gathering and bis Sunday's labours to an end. 

 The secret of the amount of work ne accomplishes is nis 

 wise use of the odd moments. He attaches as much im- 

 portance to the right use of these as to the work of the 

 definitely filled hours. 



Mr Goldwin Smith on Mr. Chamberlain. 



Writing in the Positivist Review for January- Mr. 



Goldwin Smith makes the following plain-spoken 



accusation against Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Smith 



sj\ s : — - 



He contended that the Transvaal was under British 

 suzerainty, knowing well that the word suzerainty had 

 been marked by the Colonial Secretary for deletion; that 

 Minister after Minister, some of tliem in answer to ques- 

 tions, had recognised the independence of the Transvaal; 

 that be had himself sent the Jameson Raiders to trial 

 under the Foreign Enlistment Act for fitting out an emedi- 

 tion against a foreign Power; and that the Lord Chief 

 Justice had on that occasion defined the Transvaal as " a 

 foreign State with which her Majesty was in friendly 

 treaty relations." Could falsehood be more foul? Can 

 any act be more criminal or meaner than that of the 

 politician who for his own advancement lures a nation into 

 an unjust war? 



