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The Review of Reviews. 



March K, 1906. 



THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW. 



The January number illustrates the tendency of the 

 Review to become more and more a periodical defen- 

 sive and constructive restatement of the principal 

 positions of Anglican theology. The three principal 

 articles in this number are purely theological. In one 

 Liberal theology is subjected to vigorous but tem- 

 perate criticism. Another traces the development of 

 the Church in its earliest Jerusaleun days, and main- 

 tains that the constitution of the Church then was 

 something abnormal and temporary, though suggesting 

 a resemblance to the lator gradation of bishops, pres- 

 byters, and deacons. The evidence for the Resurrec- 

 tion of Christ is examined and restated, "though no 

 j>ostulato of minute inerrancy be made on behalf of 

 the witnesses." The Pauline tradition is declared to 

 be the ultimate foundation of the Cluirch's belief in 

 Chri.st's resurrection. The religious belief that "Jesus 

 lives'' i.s held to be a more intimate possession of the 

 soul than the historical belief that ' Jesus rose," yet 

 without the latter the former might .soon become dubi- 

 ous. There is a very readable account of the progress 

 of Christian civilisation in Nyasaland, and unstinted 

 recof^nition is given of the work carried on by the 

 Scottish Churches. The significance for the early his- 

 tory of the ^^gean of the recent excavations in Crete 

 is dealt with at length. 



The general i-eader will probably turn with relief 

 from these more erudite papers to a racy review of 

 .school tales, from "Tom Brown's Schooldays" onward. 

 The writer regards Thomas Hughes as a standard. 

 Dean Farrar as too rhetorical and impossibly vir- 

 tuous, Kipling's •' Stalky and Company " as equally 

 impossibly clever, and glorifies H. A. Vachell's "The 

 Hill '' as a unique success. 



CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL. 



A writer in the February number of Chambers's 

 Journal describes the Fish-Hospital in the famous New 

 York Aquarium. It has a ward for fishes suffering 

 from contagious diseases, a surgical ward, a ward for 

 largo fishes, and a convalescent ward. One thing 

 which the doctor has observed is that salt water is an 

 excellent remedy for many diseases of fresh-water 

 fish, while an occasional bath of fresh wat-er has been 

 found beneficial for salt-water fish. The most common 

 disease among fish is the growth of fungus, and 

 pickerel are the most susceptible to fungus formations. 



Mr. Charles Windham writes on the odious system 

 of Tipping, and says it is the wealthy tourist from 

 America who has made tipping such a tax. Even in 

 clubs where tips are supposed to be prohibited the 

 i-ules laid down by committees are not always ob- 

 served, and, in addition, members are often taxed by 

 being asked to contribute to a servants' fund at 

 Christmas. In one political club the sum so sub- 

 scribed amounts to about £1200 a year. 



In another article Mr. D. A. Willey decribes the 

 Florida railway which is being constructed from the 

 mainland to Key West. It may be described as a 

 railway across the sea, for about forty miles of it 

 must be constructed above the water. It passes 

 through nearly twenty-five miles of the Everglades, 

 then across twenty miles of marsh-land to Key Largo, 

 thence over half-a-dozen smaller islands till it reaches 

 Bahia Honda, and from here to Key West it goes 

 over the Keys Ramrod, Cudjoe, Big Pine, Saddle 

 Bunch, and Boca Chica. 



THE DUBLIN REVIEW. 



With 1906 the Dublin Review appears in a new 

 guise. It is larger in size, it is printed in superior 

 type, and is a pleasure to read and handle. It is as 

 erudite as ever, and as open to consider the latest de- 

 velopments in modern thought. One article dealing 

 with the letters, supposed to be destroyed, from Man- 

 ning to Gladstone, is mentioned elsewhere. 



The present position of the Church in France is 

 dealt with by Abbe Dimnet in a much more ooncilia- 

 toi-j' and hopeful temper tlian might have been ex- 

 pected. He rejoices that, by the repeal of the Con- 

 cordat, the relations of the French Catholics with 

 Rome will be unhampered, and the appointment of 

 Church dignitaries will belong exclusively to the 

 Church. The chief inconvenience of the separation is 

 the suppression of the indemnity of the clergy, or their 

 salaries. But liberty, if it be gained, is surely worth 

 forty wretched millions of francs. He feans, how- 

 ever, that the appointment of bishops will hardly be 

 left entirely to Rome. Nevertheless, he thinks that 

 the Pope will accept the solution forced upon him and 

 upon the French Catholics, and will content himself 

 with a protest against the treatment glaringly op- 

 jx)sed to the rights of nations. He refers to an article 

 by Abbe Gayroud, said to be in.spired from the Papal 

 Court, which setvS forth the hopeful aspects of the 

 law, and says that, in spite of the hostile animus 

 which initiated it, if it were acted on in its present 

 tenon r, the situation of the Church would be rather 

 better than it has so far been. 



Mr. W. S. Lilly recalls a preface by J. H. Newman 

 to the Life of Bishop Bull, Oxford, 1840. Mr. Lilly 

 takes Mr. Bull as a typical parish priest of the old 

 Anglicanism, and then takes Father Dolling as a type 

 of the new. He ends by quoting — again from Newman 

 — a letter written some twenty-five years ago, in 

 which the Cardinal grants that " there is a great 

 divine work going on in the Anglican Church," but he 

 plainly says that were those who were carrying it out 

 all to feel it their duty to become Catholics at onoe, 

 the work of conversion would simply come to an end. 

 There would be a reaction. So Newman held that 

 "they then, like St. John the Baptist, made straight 

 the way for Christ." The letters of St. Catharine of 

 Siena are recalled, wherein she deals very plainly in- 

 deed with the Popes of her time. 



Abbot Gasquet gives his impressions of Catholic 

 America, and refers to the problem presented by the 

 American Catholics maintaining their own voluntary 

 schools, and at the same time paying the school tax 

 for the rest of the community. 



Viscount Llandaff gives a humorous account of an 

 Irish election fought by him at Dungarvan in 1868. A 

 fine i>sychological poem to the body is contributed by 

 Mrs. Meynell. There are other ai-tioles of deep philo- 

 sophical and scholarly merit. 



In Scribner's Magazine the illustrations, m colour 

 and black and white, are, as usual, a feature. 

 Attention must be called to Mr. Ernest Seton 

 Thompson's paper on " The Moose and His Antlers," 

 which all interested in natural history will find de- 

 lightful reading. Many points in moose history and 

 habits seem as yet undecided. A map shows how large 

 the moose area still remains. Other papers deal with 

 " Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters " — 

 Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissaro, Monet, and Sisley — 

 by George Moore, and with the Villas of the Vene- 

 tians. 



