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The Review of Reviews, 



Murck 



IJ'JS. 



STATE=ASSISTHD EMIGRATION OF CHILDREN. 



I'he Empire Review exprt;sses various views, on 

 the whole distinctly favourable, on Mr. C. Kinloch 

 Cooke's scheme for State-assisted child emigrants. 

 Mr. Frank Briant, a member of the Lambeth Board 

 Oi Guardians, who has spent some time in Canada 

 examining and reporting on boarded children there, 

 fu.ly agrees with Mr. Cooke's general scheme. Some 

 nat.onal scheme is now necessary, he asserts, for pro- 

 ved. iig for the judicious emigration of Poor Law 

 chi dren. He agrees that it is undesirable to attempt 

 to train children on farms in England for emigra- 

 tion. His experience of the boarding-out system in 

 Canada was, on the whole, thoroughly satisfactory, 

 (in ; obvious advantage of it being that the children 

 early acquire a knowledge of the Canadian farming 

 methods. Personally, he would prefer that they 

 wv.K boarded-out in Ontario, where the climatic and 

 other conditions are more suitable than in the 

 Xtvrth-West, and advises the minimum age being 

 lived at eight years. Care must also be taken that 

 the children get a proper amount of education. 

 1 h<rf is still not enough discrimination in their 

 s riection, and it would be much better that, as Mr. 

 ('ooke suggests, the children should be finally chosen 

 by the representatives of the Colonial Governments. 

 There are but four Government Inspectors of these 

 children, who number something like 8000, and are 

 spread over an area stretching from one side of 

 Canada to the other. 



Mr. Frank Briant only touches on the question 

 how far a nation is justified in emigrating so many 

 of its physically fit and retaining the "' lame dogs." 

 He estimates the number of children available for 

 emigration at less than 2000 (Mr. Cooke's estimate), 

 and stronglv supports the suggestion of an Emigra- 

 tion Board. 



Other interesting views are put forward by a 

 Colonial correspondent and in a leading article 

 quoted from the Naial JViincss. The point of the 

 former is that too much often is and must not be 

 exacted from the State children. "' Wards of the 

 British Empire should go forth into the world on no 

 inferior terms to those children who have had indi- 

 vidual homes, with all that the word ' home ' 

 means." 



The Emperor Akbar. — The Indian World for 

 October begins the publication of a biography, by 

 Mr. H. Beveridge, of the . Emperor Akbar. It is 

 illustrated by portraits, and is followed by a descrip- 

 tion of Akbar's tomb at Sikandra, and an appalling 

 description of .A.kbar's capture of Chitore, where 

 30.000 men, women and children perished. What 

 stands out most conspicuously in that terrific tra- 

 gedy was the splendid valour of the Rajpoot Avomen. 

 They outdid the maid of Saragossa in the fight, and 

 when the citv was captured thev burned themselves 

 to death. 



THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT. 



Mr. Walter W. Seton writes in the University 

 Rcz'icu recently on the rise and progress of the 

 Student Christian Movement. It is an illustration of 

 how the academic world is secluded from the greater 

 world, that a movement of the magnitude described 

 below should be so little known. Mr. Seton says: — 



Those wlio have looked into the position <>f thia Student 

 Christian Aloseinent have satisfied tiietnselves, wliether they 

 personally approve of its aims antl methods or not, tha.t 

 ir is a factor wliioh can uo longer he neglected. A move- 

 ment wiii«-h embraces in its memhership throughout the 

 world over 103.000 students and professors, which includes 

 nearly one in two of all the students in the North American 

 colleges, which employs for its organisation the whole time 

 of over ?,00 secretaries (all University men. mostly gradu- 

 ates and salariedi. and which, owns buildings valued at 

 over a ciuarter of a uiillion sterling — this movement is a 

 force which cannot he left out of the calculations of a 

 student of academic interests. 



He traces the rise of the British student move- 

 ment in the going out to China in 1884 of the 

 Cambridge Seven, including the champion cricketer, 

 Mr. Studd, and the stroke of the "Varsity eight, 

 Stanley Smith. In 1886 a conference convened by 

 Mr. Moody led to the foundation of the Student 

 Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions in Ame- 

 rica. Xext year the Student Foreign Missionary 

 Union was launched in London, and in 189 1-2 the 

 Union was reconstituted as the Student Volunteer 

 Union of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1893 the 

 inter-collegiate Christian Union was formed at Kes- 

 wick, repre.senting twenty colleges. In 1894 to 1895 

 the affiliated Unions rose to forty-five. In 1895 the 

 name was changed to the British College Christian 

 Union. 



In the present year there are affiliated 151 Unions, 

 of which forty-one are in theological colleges, with 

 a total membership of about 4600. The Student 

 Vo'.unteer Missionary Union has enrolled 2c;oo mem- 

 bers, of whom 958 have actually sailed for the mis- 

 sion field. The year 1904-5 has seen 200 student 

 volunteers enrolled. At the present moment 1000 

 men and women from the British Colonies are in 

 preparation for work as foreign missionaries. There 

 is a Central Executive for co-ordinating these vari- 

 ous stutlent associations. 



In 1895 representatives of the movement in 

 America, Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, and 

 the foreign mission field met in confereni-e at Wad- 

 stena Castle in Sweden, and founded the World's 

 Student Christian Federation, with a general secre- 

 tary, Mr. J. R. Mott. The Federation now em- 

 braces Christian student movements in America, 

 Canada, Australia, Great Britain, China. Korea, 

 Hong Kong, Belgium, France, Holland. Switzerland, 

 Germany. India, Ceylon, Japan, Scandinavia, and 

 South Africa. The writer claims for this Christian 

 student movement that it makes the important con- 

 tribution to academic life of a practical outlook on 

 the world. It breaks down the cloistered seclusion 

 of the college, it brings the rising young men of all 

 nationalities into touch with one another, and it 

 promotes the great cause of Christian uuitv. 



