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The Review of Reviews. 



Photograph by} IRccord Press. 



Dr. Clifford, the Veteran Reformer. 



A portrait taken on his golden \vedding-d.iy, January 14. 



for you ! Talk of going to school to the Devil ! But 

 there is sense in it after all. Instead of sending one 

 or two evangelists round the country after the Moody 

 and Sankey style, they send a team of speakers, each 

 of whom is limited to five or ten minutes, and all their 

 discourses are as carefully arranged as the parts in a 

 music-hall in order to produce a maximum impression. 

 Mr. F. D. Smith, who is the central figure of the 

 battalion of thirty workers which has taken the field 

 in this Men and Religion forward movement, lays 

 great emphasis upon the importance of social work. 

 He says it is suicide if we do not go the limit this 

 time on social betterment and the industrial situation. 

 If the Churches do not prove their sincerity and fear- 

 lessness on industrial wrongs this time the door will 

 never again be open to them. 



The whole campaign is organised 

 Revivalism on the card index system. No 

 on the , , ., 



Card Index System, town is attacked until all par- 

 ticulars concerning its moral, 

 industrial, social, and religious condition have been 

 ascertained and tabulated. Every man who is got 

 hold of is indexed up and looked after ; in fact, Mr 

 Smith and his friends are just as keen for the conver- 

 sion of souls as a big American Trust is for obtaining 

 customers. The movement, although not against 

 women, nevertheless is an attempt to assert that 



women have had too much to do in religious affairs 

 in .America, and that boys and men have got to run 

 the business henceforth. " Women have had charge 

 of Church work long enough " is the sentiment of this 

 movement which starts boys' clubs everywhere, and 

 has already anhexed the general secretary of the Boy 

 Scouts of America. "Take Christianity out of cold 

 storage " is the motto of the movement. A similar 

 movement called "The Christian Manhood Campaign" 

 is already mooted in this country. 



Telephones are but an invention 

 of yesterday. But already they 

 have made the tour of the world. 

 The number of telephone stations 

 in the Australian Commonwealth is 88,860, and New 

 Zealand has 33,228, giving a total for Australasia of 

 122,088. Here is a summary of the telephones in 

 the various continents : — 



Telephones. 



Europe 



Aria 



Africa 



North America 



South America 



Australasia 



2,848,000 



170,000 



30,000 



8,275,000 



So, 000 



122,000 



"Labby." 



11,526,000 

 The cinematograph is still more recent, but it is 

 estimated that already a capital of ^40,000,000 is 

 invested in the business. Niagara Falls, which have 

 been running to waste since the dawn of time, now 

 furnish 415,000 horse-power harnessed for the service 

 of man. These facts, and many others of like 

 nature, remind us that a new invention may add far 

 more to the national wealth than the annexation of a 

 new province or the founding of a new colony. 



"So Labby is dead. Poor Labby !" 

 In such simple phrase was received 

 the news of the death of Henry 

 Labouchere at Florence, which 

 occurred on January ]6th at the age of eighty. 

 Mr. Labouchere was one of the most interesting 

 personalities among the political men of the later 

 Victorian era. As Member for Northampton, as 

 editor and founder of Truth, as a man about town, 

 he occupied a unique position which no one has, 

 since his time, even attcmjjted to fill. If he had 

 been able to take himself a little more seriously lie 

 might have achieved still greater influence than 

 any that he secured ; but his cynical vein was 

 too deep for him ever to overcome it, I remember 

 once labouring with him for the salvation of his soul. 

 He was very kind, and seemed to be considerably 

 amazed that anyone should think he even had a sou* 



