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J he Review of Reviews. 



April 10, 1906. 



HARPER'S MAGAZINE. 



Harper's Magazine for March contains the second 

 instalment of Mr. Henry James's " Nejv Yorli Re- 

 visited.' the reader's appreciation of which will de- 

 pend on his possession of a Henry James mind. The 

 Bishop of Central Pennsylvania writes racily of his ex- 

 perience. ' In Western Camps," a photograph accom- 

 panying showing him in highly unepiscopal and highly 

 sensible costume. Other articles deal with " Geneva 

 University and Its Famous Professors." from Saus- 

 snre, one of the earlist mountaineers, to Amiel. of 

 "Journal" fame; with "Ibex-Shooting in Balistan," 

 and with " The Arapahoe Glacier in Colorado." a small 

 glacier only. 



THE LOXGLO.ST MANI BIBLE. 

 Professor Bloomfield. of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, describes the finding of Dr. Griinwedel, a 

 director of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology, of the 

 Mani Bible in Turfan. in the extreme east of Cliinese 

 Turkestan. Turfan, a city of about .50.000 inhabitants, 

 is not very far due nortii of Lhassa. About 800 frag- 

 ments of manuscript were found, written in a modified 

 Syriac script, mostly on paper, but sometimes on 

 white kid, and once on silk. The characters, however, 

 are alone Syriac ; the text is Persian or Turkish. 

 These 800 fragments are remnants of the long-lost 

 Manichean literature, the sole remnants of the Mani- 

 chean Bible : — 



The fragments reveal in the clearest imaginable manner 

 why the earl.v Church resarded Mani. or Manichaeus. as 

 Antichriet, and thundered forth its anathemas against him, 

 his father, his mother, and his followers. 



Mani. Manes, or Manichieus was born in Bab-vlon 

 A.D. 216. 



BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 



Blachwnnd's for March is peculiarly non-topical, but 

 the articles are fully up to the magazine's usual 

 standard. There is the first part of Mr. Alfred Noyes' 

 epic poem on Drake ; a chatty literary paper on 

 "Scotch Oou-sins," chief among whom is Anne Keith. 

 the Mrs. Bethune Baliol of Scott's sketch; while there 

 is a clever Impressionist sketch of a little French re- 

 staurant near the Luxembourg, and of its patroness. 

 Wlio does not know that French restaurant-keeper, 

 with her chatelaine manners, her prints on week-days, 

 and black silk on Sundays? 



A curious article deal with a visit paid to Grueff, the 

 chief of the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, in 

 his stronghold — the first time, it seems, that it was 

 appix)ached by Englishmen. 



■The Warden of the Transvaal Government Game 

 Reserves writes on '' Game Presenation in the Trans- 

 vaal." The present Transvaal Game Reserves — cost- 

 ing .£4000 to equip— extend for 300 miles by 40 to 60. 

 and contain all indigenous animals, except the few, 

 such as the elephant, rhinoceros and eland, which had 

 disappeared before the Reserves were set aside. Tlie 

 other game animals have all increased considerably 

 under two and a-half years' protection. Preventing 

 the native from destroying game, it was said, would 

 make him starve. Instead, says the writer, it has 

 made him work. Poachers still cause much trouble, 

 so much so that the sum of £4000 has had to be in- 

 creased to £.5000. There is also a Game Protection 

 Society in the Transvaal, with the object of securing 

 observance of the game laws in general, and checking 

 the terrible destruction of birds and animals by the 

 Kafiirs. The good results of this Society's work have 

 alreiidv been widely felt. 



TIE STRAND MAGAZINE. 



Writing in the !March number of the Strand Maga- 

 -Jne, Mr. M. Sterling Mackinlay, the son of Madame 

 Antoinette Sterling, gives some hints on the Art of 

 Expression in Song. 



First, he says, the singer must master the art of 

 phrasing and expression, otherwise monotony will be 

 the result. To obtain variety there should be change 

 in the volume of sound, changes in tempo, changes in 

 melody, changes in phrasing and in accentuation of 

 phrases, and changes in tim)ire- 



The new "Health Craze" is represented by a sympo- 

 sium in which eminent doctors answer such questions 

 as Do we eat too much? Do we drink too much tea? 

 What exercises are recommended? etc. All agree that 

 the well-to-do eat too much, that tea taken too strong 

 is injurious, and that outdoor exercise is best. 



Dr. Litton Forbes contributes another article on 

 Malingering, or the simulation of a disease. In mili- 

 tary service self-inflicted wounds are not uncommon. 



There is an interesting notice of Miss Augusta 

 Guest's work as a sketcher of dogs. Miss Guest, who 

 is little more than twenty, is an untrained artist. She 

 relies on her love for dogs and her complete know- 

 ledge of them to guide her pencil. 



THE TREASURY. 



Dr. E. Hermitage Day, in the Treasury, gives a 

 history of St. Chad in the March issue. 



St. Chad's name is associated with Lichfield Cathe- 

 dral, for it is there that St. Cliad's shrine once stood. 

 The relics were desecrated at the Reformation. 



The Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, writing on the Wakes, 

 notes that the wakes are pre-eminently a Church fes- 

 tival — the festival of the dedication of the Church. 

 The wakes are most honoured in the country. A 

 custom associated with the wakes is the strewing of 

 the church with rushes. 



A very full description of the Jewish Passover is 

 contributed by the Rev. G. H. Box. He remarks that 

 one of the most impressive features of Jewish religious 

 life is the prominent place assigned in it to the home, 

 when the father becomes a priest and the table an 

 altar; for instance, in the weekly hallowing of the 

 Sabbath, the grace after meals, etc. The great event 

 of the Jewish year, however, is the keeping of the 

 Passover, and the home ceremonies in this case make 

 the Passover services in the synagogue appear very in- 

 significant. Mr. Box, who has many times enjoyed 

 Jewish hospitality, gives an interesting explanation of 

 the observance of the festival. 



THE ENGLISI ILLUSTRATED. 



Mr. Arthur H. Burton contributes to the March 

 number of the English Illustrated Magazine an in- 

 teresting article on Remarkable Railways in the Uni- 

 ted States. France. Ceylon, etc. The Currecanti 

 Needle, in Lower Colorado, a piece of solid stone like 

 a monster cathedral spire, is hundreds of feet high, 

 but the most awe-inspiring piece of scenery is the 

 Royal Gorge. 



COSM«PtLITAN. 



In the Cosmopolitan for March Mr. Jack London's 

 paper is much the most generally interesting. Charm- 

 ing illustrations accompany Mr. Elbert Hubbard's 

 "The Girl of the Middle West." One paper deals 

 with famous forgeries, with reproductions of the 

 cheques that cau.sed so much loss to the banks on 

 which they were drawn. Another deals with Sarah 

 Bernhardt, very good illustrations of her in various 

 parts accompanying it. 



