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The Review of Reviews. 



TO CANADIANISE BRITAIK, 



Undkr the quaint title of " The Imperial Emigrant 

 and his Political Religion" Mr. Arthur Hawkes, 

 Special Commissioner of Immigration for the Dominion 

 of Canada, writes in the Nindeeitth Century for 

 January. He insists that the emigrant is the real 

 custodian of the Empire's future. He urges the 

 importance of trying to understand and prepare the 

 emigrant by the light of the change that has come 

 over the returned emigrant. He mentions, by the 

 way, that an Australian talks like a Londoner ; the 

 British Canadian speaks largely as the American 

 speaks. 



WHERE TO PREACH THE IMPERIAL GOSPEL. 



His main theme is that the right place for the 

 Imperial Canadian gospel is where the Imperial 

 emigrant begins his pilgrimage. The gospel of 

 emigration should first be preached to those who will 

 never emigrate, that they may pass it on to succeeding 

 groups of emigrants, and that they may become the 

 leaven through which Britain herself may master the 

 lessons of the emigrant returned. He implies that a 

 judicious development of county patriotism in the old 

 country will prepare the emigrant for the patriotism 

 of the province of the Dominion abroad. Further- 

 more, Westminster might learn from Ottawa that a 

 < Jovernment can enter the advertising business with 

 as much skill as the proprietor of a brand of shoes 

 does. " With its manifold shortcomings, the Canadian 

 Government strikes a more intimately human note 

 than the public instruments have discovered how to 

 do in the Old \Vorld." The British attitude to 

 Canada has been revolutionised within the last 

 decade. There is a new Canada and a changed 

 Britain. 



THE DUKE OF SIJTHERI.AND's PLAN. 



The writer speaks most favourably of the Duke of 

 Sutherland's plan. The Duke proposes the associa- 

 tion of Canadian and British brains and capital 

 in obtaining from the Canadian Governments lands 

 and means of intercommunication, on which will be 

 placed settlers througii a company which will partially 

 prepare tiie farm, erect buildings, and put a certain 

 amount of land into crop, and sell it to the occupant 

 on terms devised to show a certain elasticity accord- 

 ing to crop results, 'i'he Duke helps the settler to 

 purchase his farm, and then retires gracefully 

 with his capital and 6 per cent. The writer would 

 also develop the process of approximating the life, 

 ideas and standard of living of the average man in 

 Britain to the life, ideas and standard of living of 

 the average man in Canada. So he would try to 

 Canadianise Britain. The writer mentions the 

 Canada British Association, which has been formed 

 to i)romote amongst those of British birth the sense of 

 a Canadian nationality, to promote the extension of 

 Canadian and Britisii channels of commerce, to 

 encourage the immigration of settlers from the British 

 Isles, and to welcome all new-comers from the Old 

 Country. 



PARIS AND HER MONUMENTS. 



M. Gustave Pessard has just published a French 

 pamphlet entitled " Parisian Statuomania." 



THE MANIA FOR MONUMENTAL HONOURS. 



The author's aim is to draw attention to the 

 fabulous number of monuments and statues which 

 have been erected in Paris, and to cry, Halt ! Many 

 of the subjects honoured seem to have little claim to 

 fame, and many of the monuments have equally little 

 claim to be called works of art, and in many instances 

 they stand in most uncongenial surroundings. At 

 the present moment tliere are literally no blank spaces 

 left. It has been suggested that the churches and 

 public buildings might be more utilised, that busts 

 might suffice for a large number, and that the 

 cemeteries might be adorned after the manner of 

 Pere Lachaise. Quite a number of celebrilies have 

 more than one monument. Voltaire, for instance, 

 has seven, Richelieu four, Joan of Arc three, and 

 Napoleon two ; Alfred de Musset and Victor Hugo 

 each have three, and will soon have a fourth ; 

 Molifere has three, Beethoven and Chopin each two, 

 George Sand two, and a third is projected, and a 

 second monument is to be erected to Beethoven. 

 Meanwhile the new celebrities are asked to wait a 

 while. Gardens are to be laid out on the site of the 

 old fortifications, and thtse will require some decora- 

 tion. Perhaps, then, a little more system and sense 

 of fitness in the selection of celebrities will be shown. 

 There are still many great scientists, poets, artists, 

 musicians, and writers of past centuries with real 

 claims awaiting beautiful and suitable monuments. 



NINE HUNDRED STATUES. 



Not counting the large number of saints on the 

 facades, etc., of the churches, or the monuments in 

 the great cemeteries, or .such works as the Lion de 

 Belfort, the Monument of the Republic, the Triumph 

 of the Republic, the Statue of Liberty, and one or 

 two others, or the statues in the Place de la Concorde, 

 or the innumerable busts of immortals in the courts 

 of the Institut, but reckoning the 335 statues in ail 

 styles- -mythological, allegorical, and others which 

 decorate the squares and avenues, the 32S Parisians 

 of mark considered sufficiently illustrious to ornament 

 the fai,-ades of the Hotel de Ville and the terraces of 

 the Louvre, and the 180 other monuments of different 

 kinds consecrated to the numory of individuals scat- 

 tered about everywhere in the promenades, and 

 including the seventy-two statues projected or in 

 preparation, the grand total of monuments, statues, 

 busts, bas-reliefs, etc., in Paris destined to com- 

 memorate or to recall the names and exploits of 

 great men exceeds 900. It would be interesting to 

 learn how London compares with Paris in this 

 respect. 



