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The Review of Reviews. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. 



I NOTICE elsewhere two remarkable articles in the 

 January number of the North American Review — • 

 Rear- Admiral Mahan's article on "The Place of 

 Force in International Relations" and Mr. W. G. 

 Merritt's gloomy essay on the closed shop. 



ARBITRATION TREATIES AND THE SENATE. 



Mr. C. C. Hyde is hopeful as to the acceptance of 

 the Arbitration Treaties : — 



The Senate will not vender the treaties abortive by emascula- 

 tion. It will not withhold approval of the arbitration of all 

 justiciable differences so long as it is clearly understood that 

 political questions, such as those that might arise from the 

 operation of the Monroe Doctrine, are definitely excluded. 

 Finally, it is believed that, undismayed by the constitutional 

 objection, it will be prepared to accept the full provisions for 

 the Joint High Commission if the American representatives, 

 when interpreting the scope of treaties, are to be not less than 

 three in number, and themselves members of the Senate. 



Mr. Ralph S. Tarr discusses at length the factors 

 that govern what is known as the Alaskan problem. 

 He says : — 



The one underlying need to make this possible, 'assuming 

 that the belief in the mineral wealth of Alaska is correct, is the 

 provision of transportation. Without it, as at present, only the 

 richest deposits can be worked, and these only at very great 

 and wasteful expense, while truly valuable deposits will con- 

 tinue to remain untouched. As a landowner the United States 

 cannot afford to allow these deposits to remain useless, and 

 cither private enterprise should be encouraged to furnish neces- 

 sary transportation facilities or else the Government itself should 

 provide them. Of the two plans the latter would seem to be 

 i'ar the wiser and to promise the best results with the greatest 

 economy. 



Mr. P. F. Hall, in an article entitled " The Future 

 of American Ideals," discusses the efifect which a 

 million emigrants is likely to have upon the 

 American nation. He maintains that many of the 

 emigrants come from the defective and delinquent 

 classes of Europe, who have fallen into a lower 

 stratum of its civilisation. He fears that the one result 

 would be that the United States would become like 

 Austria-Hungary — a mi.xture of peoples living side 

 by side who never wholly merge into the general 

 national type. Further, he thinks that the 

 Mediterranean emigrants and the Jews will inter- 

 marry with the blacks, and the resultant population 

 will never tolerate the present domination of the 

 whites. The Puritan Sabbath has already dis- 

 appeared, free marriage is coming in, and unless 

 something is done the old ideals will disappear. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 



Mr. Stanwood Cobb, writing on " The Difficulties 

 of the Young Turk Party," maintains that Turkey is 

 about to be carved ; the only question is, who will 

 get the best slice ? Mr. P. J. Lennox, in an article 

 entitled " Insuring a Nation," describes Mr. Lloyd 

 George's Insurance Act from a very sympathetic 

 point of view. Mr. W. D. Howclls describes his 

 visit to Stratford-on-Avon. Mr. Arnold Bennett writes 

 on " The Future of the .American Novel " ; and Mr. 

 S. G. Tallentyre gossips about the poetry of Robert 

 Herrick, George Herbert, and Richard Barbara. 



THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINES. 



With the January number the Irish Monthly 

 entered upon its fortieth annual volume, having been 

 founded_in 1873. Of this Catholic magazine, the Rev. 

 Matthew Russell, a well-known writer of religious 

 verse, has been editor since the first number. Mr. 

 Russell was not quite inexperienced when he took up 

 this labour of love, for he had been a contributor to 

 the English Messenger of t fie Sacred Heart, a history of 

 which he gives in the January Irish Monthly. The 

 first editor of the Messenger, Father William Maher, 

 belonged to the Sir James Knowles class of editors, 

 who never write a line themselves but get the best 

 out of other people. The first volume of his 

 magazine (1868) contained nothing original except 

 new translations of Latin hymns, one of thera being 

 Father Albany Christie's famous translation from the 

 German of a hymn to the Sacred Heart. In the 

 second volume Mr. Russell's verse began to appear, 

 and he helped the magazine by securing for it the 

 poems of many other interesting writers. He now 

 unveils for us the anonymities of many of these 

 poetic contributors. Thus, the signature " M. M." 

 represents the Rev. Michael Mullins, and the initials 

 " R. M." stand for Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). 

 When Mr. Russell's contributions became too numer- 

 ous they were divided between his initials " M. R." 

 and his finals, " W. L." In the Irish Monthly, Lady 

 Gilbert is recognisable by the initials " R. M. G." 

 Some of her early poems appeared in the Month over 

 her finals, " A. D." 



THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. 



The January number is intensely Conservative. 

 Mr. F. E. Smith, in a paper noted elsewhere, glows 

 with joy over Unionist prospects. Sir W. Bull gives 

 an account of the various Socialist movements in this 

 country. Mr. Hilaire Belloc's plea for bounties on 

 wheat is mentioned elsewhere. " A Believer in the 

 Book " inveighs against Modernism in the Church of 

 England, and what he regards as the pernicious 

 repudiation of the authority of Holy Writ. Professor 

 Defourney desc-ribes the religious situation in Belgium 

 by saying that Belgium is preponderatingly Catholic. 

 Almost all Belgian children are taught in Catholic 

 Schools, and by a marvellous network of organisation 

 the Church keeps her children as they grow up within 

 her care. Henry Bordeaux writes in French on the 

 family in the contemporary French theatre, and traces 

 the growth of a more normal attitude towards the 

 proper paternal, filial, and conjugal relations. In 

 refreshing contrast to most of the papers, Mr. L. F. 

 Salzmann turns the searchlight upon the mediceval 

 times and the infamous way in which those in authority 

 harried the people. He dismisses with scorn the idea 

 that England in the Middle Ages was a merry place. 



The Anti- Vivisection Review publishes in full, as a 

 gratifying sign of progress in humane thought, the 

 new Protection of Animals Act, 191 1. 



