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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



AND AFTER. 



The inevitable articles on Divorce and 

 Balkans have been separately noticed, as 

 one or two others. 



L00,000 COUNTRY COTTAGES WANTED. 



Lord Henry Bentinck, M.P., laments 

 dearth of cottages for rural labourers, 

 official papers, he says, show that the only solu- 

 tion of the cheap cottage lies in the application 

 of the principle contained in the Bill of Sir 

 Arthur Griffith-Boscawen — namely, the system 

 of State grants in aid for building. It has 

 already been applied to Ireland, at what 

 appears to be much greater cost than would be 

 involved in England. It is estimated that 

 100,000 additional cottages are required to meet 

 the dearth in rural England, and on the Irish 

 basis this would involve an annual loss of 

 ;^!^2o8,ooo. The farmers everywhere lament the 

 insufficiency of good labour ; the cottages are too 

 few, and often very poor ; the labourer naturally 

 moves to the towns and colonies. 



WHY NOT INDIANISE INDIA? 



Mr. E. B. Havell thus ironically puts our 

 message to India : — 



" Come into our schools and colleges ; we will send you 

 European professors to teach you literature, science, and 

 art. Leave your villages, you millions of hand-weavers; 

 the handloom is a relic of antiquity; your salvation lies 

 in the city. Come into our factories, with your women 

 and j'our little children; we will show you the magic of 

 the machine. We will build you great cities like Man- 

 chester and Birmingham. Progress lies only with capi- 

 talism and machinery. Work for us, jou poor benighted 

 artisans; we will give you all the blessings of Western 

 civilisation." They are now enjoying a foretaste of these 

 blessings in the purlieus of Bombay and Calcutta ! 



He seriously advocates : — 



That not only technical and art experts but all Anglo- 

 Indian officials, before they take up their appointments 

 in India, should graduate at an Indian Institute worthy 

 of the name, located either in this country or in India ; 

 so that the sympathetic study of the different aspects of 

 Oriental life and thought should no longer be a mere 

 question of personal inclination, but an indispensable 

 introduction to tlie Indian Government services. 



THE REAL TRAINING FOR PUBLIC LIFE. 



Mr. Stanley Leathes discusses how universi- 

 ties should prepare men for public service. Not 

 mathematics, not natural science, not philo- 

 sophy, not political economy, though each be 

 valuable, forms the best training for public 

 appointments. The two main subjects should 

 be literature and history, including poetry, the 

 drama, law, politics, and philosophy, together 

 with systematic education in language and in 



xpression. The best history schools in Kngl.Tnd 



do not, he says, enforce the scholarly study of 

 language as an integral part of the training. 



THE FUTURE OF SARAWAK. 



Mr. Arnold White pleads that a benevolent 

 personal government of the Brooke dynasty 

 should be preserved by the Government, and 

 that t^e land of the natives should not be 

 allowed to be bought up by avaricious syndi- 

 cates. He remarks : — 



The Dreadnought that is to be so generously given to 

 the British Government will be principally paid for out 

 of rubber estates planted on the lands of the native in- 

 habitants. 



THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. 



Mention is made of the articles on the Eastern 

 Question in another column, and for the rest the 

 Contemporary placidly discusses Home Rule and 

 Proportional Representation as though nothing 

 else mattered. Mr. Erskine Childers writes with 

 some anxiety as to the fate of " Home Rule in 

 Parliament," but is willing to extract comfort 

 from the Unionist condemnation of some of the 

 limitations proposed by the Government. He 

 says : — 



It is here that the hopes for a peaceful settlement of 

 the Irish question lie. This Bill ought to, and will, pass 

 through the House of Commons. The Government have 

 the constitutional power to pass it unaltered into law. 

 But if, either before or after that event, the two 

 estranged sections of the Irish people, in recognition of 

 the coming fact or the accomplished fact, sit down face 

 to face to consider their action, they will find a basis 

 for reconciliation in the demand for a wider and more 

 honourable gift of responsibility which will place all 

 question of British interference, whether to keep the 

 peace or dry-nurse Ireland, outside discussion. 



President-Elect Woodrow Wilson is the sub- 

 ject of an interesting sketch by Alfred L. P. 

 Dennis, who bestows unstinted praise on one 

 who 



Is certain to be careful in foreign politics, to aim first 

 towards diplomatic, equitable, and judicial settlement 

 of disputes. Furthermore, he looks to the "establish- 

 ment of a foreign policy based upon justice and good 

 will, rather than mere commercial exploitation and the 

 selfish interests of a narrow circle of financiers extend- 

 ing their enterprises to the ends of the earth." His 

 firmness, his knowledge of history as well as of inter- 

 national law, will remain a buttress both to his hatred 

 of war and to his natural, determined Americanism. 



Serious politicians will find some problems of 

 Electoral Reform discussed by Mr. J. F. Wil- 

 liams in his argument for " Proportional Repre- 

 sentation," and the objections urged bv Mr. 

 Clifford D. Sharp. The average reader can 

 study " How the Older Novelists Manage Their 

 Love Scenes," by Dorothy Lane-Poole, and 

 may compare with interest Canon Lillev's 

 estimate of George Tyrrell with the appreciation 

 appearing in the Fortnightly. 



