ilavieir of Kevicws, l/3ilS. 



AN EDITORIAL FOREWORD. 



Twenty-three years ago my father, W. T. Stead, founded the Review of 

 Reviews in London, the first magazine to be issued at the popular price of 

 sixpence. All his friends predicted certain failure, but the journal was a 

 success from the start. A year later he began the independent publication of 

 an American edition in New York, with the able co-operation of Dr. Albert 

 Shaw, whose writings on municipal matters had brought him into the front 

 rank of journalists who get things done. In 1892 he began the Australasian 

 edition of the Review, which was edited by Mr. W. H. Fitchett until 1904, 

 when the latter started a magazine of his own. Undismayed by this secession 

 my father, to use his own phrase, determined to keep the flag flying in Austral- 

 asia. He left it flying when he went down in the Titanic, and I have come out 

 to Australia to nail it flrmly to the mast. 



Mr. A\'. H. Judkms, who for so many years occupied the editorial chair^ 

 passed away last September. In him I lost a great personal friend, and 

 Australia one of her foremost reformers and social workers. No man is indis-^ 

 pensable, but some few are irreplaceable. Since the October number Mr. J. 

 Packer has most ably bridged the gap until m)- arrival, and contributes some 

 of the notes in the Progress which follows. 



I count confldently upon the hearty co-operation and help of those who 

 have been for so long readers of my father's writings. You can help me to 

 realise his ideal and make this magazine as useful and powerful a journal m 

 this country as he made the parent Review m Britain and Dr. Shaw has 

 made the American Review 111 the States. That, I feel, is the best and finest 

 memorial I can raise to his memor)'. It would appeal to him far more than 

 statue or tablet, medallion or bust. When he started the Review he deter- 

 mined to work for the unity of the English-speaking race, for the federation 

 of the British Empire. I, too, set before me the ideal of a great Empire, 

 each Dominion therein bound with flexible but unbreakable ties to the other, 

 presenting a solid front to the world, every man and woman in it proud above all 

 of being an Imperial citizen, but realising full}- the responsibility this citizenship 

 now entails. 



I have had but a couple of weeks since my arrival in Australia to get 

 into the saddle and produce this number, and naturally have not been able to 

 turn it ou: quite as I should wish. Following numbers will show a great 

 advance. People tell me that Australians do not take any interest in Home 

 politics and European happenings ; but I am convinced that this is not so, and 

 that realising the part you must ere long play in the world's politics, a bright 

 and pithy survey of events outside Australasia would be welcomed in the 

 magazine. I have made arrangements with the foremost photographers and 

 illustration Arms in England and on the Continent so that we shall be able to 

 put before you each month a large and varied selection of portraits and pictures 

 of men and events all over the world. Topical illustration \v'\\\, indeed, be one 

 of the chief features of the Review in future. 



I shall be glad to have suggestions and letters from any readers about the 

 Review. You know what you want, and I shall try and give it you if you will 

 help me to do so. I intend to make the magazine a truly Australasian one, 

 not associated specially with any one State or party, but standing all the time 

 for Imperial unit)'. With your co-operation I know I shall succeed. 



. HENRY STEAD. 



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