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Topics of the Day in the Periodicals of the Month. 



HOME AFFAIRS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL. 



Agriculture, Land : 



Wheat Bounties, by H. Belloc, " Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge Rev,'' Jan. 

 Compulsor)' Agricultural Insurance in France, by 

 L. Lafferre, " Grande Rev," Jan. lo. 

 Annies : 

 The Belgian Army, by Gen. Maitrot, " Correspon- 



dant," Jan. lo. 

 The Army of the United States, by A. de Tarld, 

 "Questions Di|ilomatiques," Jan. i and 16. 

 Ballooning, Aerial Navigation : 

 The Sovereignty of the Air, ".Edinburgh Rev," Jan. 

 Military Aviation, by Lieut." X., "Rev. de Paris," 



Jan. 15. 

 Flight Probabilities, by C. C. Turner, "Pall Mall 

 Mag," Jan. 

 Children : The Story of a Care Committee, by Rev. H. 



Isclin, " Economic Rev," Jan. 

 Church DisestabUshment (see also Wales) : 



The Strength and Weakness of a Disestablished 

 Church. '• Church Qrly," Jan. 

 Chutch of England : 



Modernism in the Church, by " Believer in the Book," 



" Oxford and Cambridge Rev," Jan. 

 The Archbishop's Committee on Church Finance, by 

 Archdeacon Burrows, " Church Qrly," Jan. 



Crime, Prisons : Reform in the Treatment of Criminals, 

 by .\rthur Wood, " Holborn Rev," Jan. 



Feeble-Minded : The Social Results of Mental Defect, 



by Ellen I'. Pinsent, " Church Qrly," Jan. 

 Finance : 

 The Financial Crisis of 1907 and 191 1, by R. G. L6v\, 



" Rev. des Deux Mondes," Jan. i. 

 A New Imperial Preference Scheme, by Commander 

 C. Bellairs, " Nineteenth Cent," Feb. 

 Housing Problem in Germany, by von Briinneck- 



Trebnitz, " Deutsche Rev," Jan. 

 Insurance, National — Old Age Pensions, etc. : 

 Will the French Old Age Pensions Act be enforced ? 

 by J. Hachin, " .Mouvement Social," Jan. 

 Ireland : 

 Ju<.tice lo Ireland, by Ian Malcolm, " Nineteenth 



Cent," Feb. 

 Is Home Rule for the Good of Ireland .' by P. Ander- 

 son (Iraham, " Nineteenth Cent." Feb. 

 Home Rule Finance, " Qrly. Rev," Jan. 

 Imperial Funds spent on Ireland, by W. M. J. 



Williams, " Contemp. Rev," Feb. 

 The Religious Question, by Sydney Brooks, " Fort- 

 nightly Rev," Feb. 

 The Irish Church, by F. Morgan, " Church Qrly," Jan. 

 Jews : 



I he Future of the English Rabbinate, by David Spero, 

 " Fortnightly Rev," Feb. 

 Labour Problems : 



Strikes, by ( ;., " Fortnightly Rev," Feb. 



The Coal Crisis, by W. H. Renwick, " Nineteenth 



Cent," Feb. 

 The Passing of the Unskilled in Germany, by 

 E. Roberts, " Scribncr," Feb. 



Marriage : 

 The Church and Celibacy, by Rev. H. R. Gamble antt 



G. G. Coulton, " Nineteenth Cent," Feb. 

 Navies : 



The Growth of Expenditure on Armaments, by E. 



Cramond, " Quarterly Rev," Jan. 

 Recent Changes in Admiralty Organisation, by Sir W. 



H. White, " Nineteenth Cent," Feb. 

 The Naval and Economic Triumph of the Dreadnought 



Policv, 1905-12, by Excubitor, " Fortnightly Rev," 



Feb. 



Oversea Expeditions and the Command of the Sea, by 



Two Seamen, " United Service Mag," Feb. 

 The Navy of the United States, by A. de Tarl^, 



" Questions Diplomatiques," Jan. i and 16. 

 Opium : 



The Opium Conference at the Hague, by E. F. 



Baldwin, " Amer. Rev. of Revs," Feb. 

 Parliamentary : 

 The History of Majority Rule, by T. Baty, " Quarterly 



Rev," Jan. 

 Changes of Current in Political Thought, " Edinburgh 



Rev," Jan. 

 The Turn of the Tide, by Curio, " Fortnightly Rev," 



Feb. 

 Mr. Balfour's Farewell, by Wilfred Ward, " Dublin 



Rev," Jan. 

 Unionist Prospects, by F. E. Smith, "Oxford and 



Cambridge Rev," Jan. 

 Is a Tory Revival Possible.' by A. A. Baumann, 



" Fortnightly Rev," Feb. 



Pauperism and the Poor Law : 



The English Poor Law Problem, by H. Parkinson, 

 " Mouvement Social," Jan. 



Population Questions : The Pressure of Population, by 



W. S. Rossiter, "Atlantic Mthly," Jan. 



Race and Language, by Prof. B.J. Wheeler, "Deutsche 



Rev," Jan. 

 Social Questions : 



Real Social Reform, by H. J. Darnton-Fraser, "West- 

 minster Rev," Feb. 

 Charity-up-to-date, by Canon Barnett, " Contemp. 



Rev," Feb. 

 Prince Proletariat, by W. Sichel, " Fortnightlv Rev," 

 Feb. 

 Sugar 'The Japanese Government and Sugar, by Rev. 

 J. C. Pringle, " Economic Rev," Jan. 



Telephone : State Telephones, by J. G. Leigh, 



" Ixonomic Rev," Jan. 

 Temperance and the Liquor Traffic : 



American Prohibition .ind .Socialist Abstainers, by 



A. Hepner, " Sozialistische Monalshcfte," Jan. 11. 

 The International Congress against .Alcoholism at the 



Hague, by F. Roch, "Mouvement Soci.il," Jan. 

 The Problem of Alcoholism, by A. M. Carr-Saunders, 

 " Economic Rev," Jan. 

 Wales : 



Welsh Disestablishment, by Llewellyn Williains, 



" Contemp. Rev," Feb. 

 The Irish and the Welsh Churches, by F. Morgan, 

 " Church Qly," Jan. 



