March 1, 1913 



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The Putumayo, The Devil's Paradise. 



By W. E. Hairdeuburg. (Fisher 



Unwin. lOs. 6d. net.) 

 This story of Putumayo is not one to 

 be enjoyed. The writers must have 

 groaned over their task, and the 

 reader will feel honest shame that 

 such things can be as he reads of 

 themi. To many people the word Bel- 

 gian had lost some of its savour be- 

 cause of the Oongo atrocities; now 

 we have to find that London has 

 helped to engineer, and British money 

 has helped to carry out, cruelties that 

 are equally revolting. This volume 

 contains the original account of W. 

 ■E. Hardenburg, who, after unsuccess- 

 fully calling the attention of the 

 Portuguese authorities to the horrors 

 of which he had been a witness, was 

 the cause of the sending of Consul 

 Casement to report. As is well knov/n, 

 this report corroborated and even 

 added to his statements. If the book 

 had been simply a description of the 

 wonders of the Amazon Valley, and 

 the fineness and vigour of the natives 

 wiho inhabit the country, the pleasure 

 in reading would have been great ; 

 but we are compelled to think of those 

 nine-year-old girls torn from their 

 homes, ravished, and afterwards tor- 

 tured or flogged to death ; of suckling 

 infanta snaitched from their mothers' 

 arms and their heads smashed against 

 a. tree; of a wife having her legs cut 

 off merely for refusing to become one 

 of the concubines of these bandits; 

 of men flogged until . . . Here fol- 

 low words which cannot be printed ; 

 or of old f.athers shot to dealh before 

 their s-ons' eyes merely because they 

 were oM and could work no longer! 

 This Soath American Inferno is a blot 

 upon the nations permitting it, and 

 the so-called civilisation which values 

 rubber as being worth cruelties worse 

 than those of the Inquisition. The 

 Report of Sir Roger Casement is in- 

 cluded in the book. 



Becent Events and Present Politics in 

 China. By J. O. P. Bland. (Heine- 

 mann. 16s. net.) 

 A volume full of interest and informa- 

 tion written in a pleasant fashion, 

 bountifully illustrated, and with a 

 print it is a pleasure to read. 



The American Occupation of tlie PJiilip- 

 pines. By Hames H. Blount. 

 (Putnam. 15s. net.) 

 This is a comprehensive survey of the 

 entire Philippines question liy a 

 United States officer who volunteered 

 in 1899, and was District Judge from 

 1901 to 1905. It is not, of course, an 

 easy matter for Australians to judge 

 of the pros and cons of the action of 

 the United States with regard to the 

 Philippines. Mr. Blount urges evacua- 



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