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The Reviews Reviewed. 



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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-AND AFTER. 



The chief (lisliiictioii of the March number is Lord 

 HuKh Cecil's appreciation of tlie Life of Gladstone. 



TIIK EXP.\TRIATION OP CAPIT.\L. 

 Mr. W. H. Mallock, writing on this subject, declares 

 that the mystery of how wi- pay for the excess of im- 

 poi-ts over exports is .solved. That excess is 2.")0 mil- 

 lions. 



Carriage of imports, or freights 90 millions 



Brought in by foreign tourists and visitoro 20 „ 



Government 8e<urities al)road 4 



Other securities 20 „ 



tndian, Colonial, and foreign railways ... 25 



other railways abroad 14 



Income from British capital abroad ... 77 .', 



250.000,000 



He then goes on to argue that Tariff Reform would 

 t<>nd to keep British capital at home and find work 

 for British workmen iii'^tead of for foreigners. 



THK RtX:KNT OVKRTUR.N IN POLITICS. 

 Sir Herbert Maxwell, writing in his own charming 

 way on "The Flood— and After," rejoices that the 

 Unionist Party is henceforth a party of Tariff Re- 

 form, and declares that with Mr, Balfour as Com- 

 mander-in-Chief and Mr. Chamberlain as Chief of the 

 Staff, the Unioni.st Purty enteis upon tlie campaign 

 with perfect (■<)nfideiic<> in its leaders. Sir H. Setoii- 

 Karr gives a Unionist view of the l^abour I'arty. He 

 expects that the Labour Party will he committed to an 

 alliance with the Irish Party. It is tinged with So- 

 cialism. Sir Herbert welcoines the idea of a commis- 

 sion of Lahiun Ms.l', to confer with the Labour par- 

 ties in each of the self-governing Colonies. He hopes 

 that '■ we may <'ventiially see the evolution of a true 

 Labour Party, pledged to Tariff Reform and commer- 

 cial ledera-tion for the Empire." 



BRITISH EARTHQUAKE. 

 Dr. Charles Davison, writing on earth(|uakes in 

 Great Britain, points out that the longer axes of these 

 earthquakes are nearly parallel to the axes of "the 

 great crust folds of the underlying rocks. In close 

 connection with the fold.s are nearly parallel and per- 

 pendicular .systems of faults or fractures, along which 

 movement takes place intermittently, the crust on the 

 one side advancing over that on tlie other by a series 

 of slips, rather than by imperceptible creeps. The sug- 

 gestion is that these fault slips cause the earthcuiakes. 



THE DESCENT OF DANCING. 

 M. A. Hincks describes with vast enthusiasm the 

 dance in ancient Greece, it^ religiousness, its intimate 

 relation with Greek life. Its influence on art, philo- 

 sophy, tragedy and comedy. "In no other art do we 

 find the perfect balance of physical and mental so 

 clearly exemplified." The writer proceeds- — 



No art has fallen from so high, and no art has fallen so 

 low. The dance, once so full of " solemn and passionate 

 meaning." once the most powerful and eloquent mode of 

 worshipping the gods, once a true sister of the Muses, has 

 now be(;ome a mere acrobatic exercise, an excuse for kick- 

 ing and flirtation, ••vs in the modern ballroom! 



OTHER ARTICLES. 

 Mr. D. M. Morrison advocates, in place of Trade 

 Unions, legally constituted labour tribunals, which 

 should exact contributions from workers and employers, 

 to provide old-age pensions and to form an assurance 

 fund, somewhat after the German model, against sick- 

 ness, accident, and unemployment. Rev. Ethelred 

 Taunton reviews the relation.s be'tween the Holv See 

 and France in order to show that the former has in no 



way violated or departed from the Concordat. Mrs. 

 Conrad Dillon pre>sents the First Gentleman in Europe 

 in an unwonted light as paterfamilias. She quotes let- 

 ters to show his touching concern for his offspring. 

 She laments that Protestant bigotry oompolled George 

 IV., while .still Prince of Wales, to forsake his Catholic 

 wife. Mrs. Fitzherbert . and to accept Princess Caroline, 

 whom he disliked from the first. 



THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW. 



In the Independent Reriew Canon Barnett, writing 

 on "The Religious Difficulty," makes suggestions which 

 he thinks will answer all Ihe " loud cries." They are: 

 (1) The Ix)cal Education .\iitliorities to buy the build- 

 ings of such denominational schools in every neigh- 

 bourhood as ma.y be required to establi.sh a public 

 school iu which they control all teaciiing; (2) the capi- 

 tal sum received by owners of denominational schools, 

 trusts, etc., to be transferred to bodies representing 

 the denominations, which wotild fulfil trusts, establish 

 denominational schools, etc. ; (,'J) the Education Board 

 to pav salaries of all teachers, according to scale, l)ro- 

 yided the teachers liold Board's certificates and teach 

 in schools satisfying the Board's inspectors. 



The paper on ' Moketo, Gurth and Bill Brown " deals 

 largely with the Congo Report, and its point is, why 

 be so busy civilising the native in the Congo when 

 there is so much civilising to do at home!-' The Congo 

 native is ruled by Forci-, Gurth (the Anglo-Saxon^ b.y 

 Fear, and Bill Brown to-day by Hunger — none of them 

 proper foundations on which to build up a State. 



THK LABOUR PARTY AND ITS POLICY. 

 Mr. J. Hamsay Macdonald reminds the Labour Party 

 that it will be judged as much by its ideas as by its 

 work. The kernel of his paper is contained in the fol- 

 lowing quotation: — 



The future of the Labour Part,v is to be determined by its 

 success in making its principles clear to .itself and the 

 countr.i'. If it narrows itself down to a class movement, or 

 X tr:ide movement or a manual workers' movement: or if it 

 imagines that, as a minority, it can, by playing one Party 

 off against another, do mucb good; or if it attacks its prob- 

 lems sui>erficiaUy, and does not iiim at far-reaching changes 

 in social structure — it will weaken and finall.v disappear. 

 The alternative tor it is to t«ke its stand upon the senti- 

 ments of right, which iiave never been apijealed to in 

 vain. 



Mr. Sidne.v T. Irwin's paper on "Satire and Poetry 

 at Oliiey " is an interesting criticism of Cowper's 

 poetry. 



TEMPLE BAR. 



In Teniijle Bar for March General Friduhelm von 

 Ranke gives us some reminiscences of his father, Leo- 

 pold von Ranke, the famous historian. The hard- 

 working scholar did not think constant control and 

 correction good for children. He used to say; — 



Qualities are born with men. God gave them their pecu- 

 liarities as the impress of His seal. Whatever qualities 

 are in them will make their way, 



Mr. Clarence Rook contributes an article on Ameri- 

 can Manners. On the surface nations differ, but below 

 the surface they are all much the .same. The stranger 

 must know the social language of each. Mr. Rook 

 says : — 



Every nation develops the manners that suit its mode of 

 life; it is only the language that differs . . . Tho 

 Englishman who, priding himself on his reticence, resents 

 the frank inquisitiveness of the casual American acquaint- 

 ance is— no linguist. He misses the chief joy of American 

 travel. 



