Leading Articles in the Reviews. 



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POETRY IN THE MAGAZINES. 

 Indian \'ie\v of Indistry. 

 A i>uEM in the February Easl and West en "The 

 Hill of Frenzy," by Umrao Singh, contains a very 

 spirited description of the new industrial life that is 

 in\ading India : — 

 I'ar in ihe distance a factory funnel piercing the air, and sending 



10 Heaven the incense of llell, and grinding things to un- 



wholeiome powder. 

 And the voice inaudible whispering of hope and fear and 



warning, 

 \\ liispering from looms and grinding stones and smelting fur- 

 nace, from whirring motor and p«£Bng engine, frcm 



stitching needle, 

 rrom creaking yoke and scratching quill, from clanking harness 



and twitching muscle, 

 Whispering of life, its luring hopes, its vanishing guerdons, its 



joys ever at hand and ever receding ; 

 rif ever unwelcome but never departing sorrows ; of hopes 



reviving from the ashes of life, from the travail of years. 

 Of the biilh of life from the womb of death. 



" A factory funnel piercing the air and sending to 

 Heaven the incense of Hell," is about as good a 

 description of a tali chimney as we have seen. 



St. \'.\le.ntine's D.av. 

 In the Elicit slncoinan, Dorothy Bussy contributes a 

 poem on Fcbruarx i4lhj from which the following 

 lines may be chosen : — 



I-ove chose His holiday to fall 

 In winter-time ; His festival 

 He keeps when skies are dark and drear. 

 In the saddest time of all the year. . , . 

 He knows that of all sweets bereft. 

 With neither fruit nor blossom left, 

 \Vc shall but stretch our empty hands 

 More eagerly to Him who stands 

 The Lord of Life and Death, and I'ray 

 With quicker, purer hearts than they 

 Who go rose-crowned and never know 

 The stress and gloom of « ind and snow. 



A Nine-Year Old Poetess. 

 A recent issue of Harper's contained the following 

 stanzas on the " Hermit Thrush," by .\rvia Mackaye, 

 the nine-year-old daughter of the poet, Percy 

 Mackaye : — 



While walking through a lonely hpo.1 



I heard a lovely voice : 

 .\ voice io freOi and true and -^ 1 



It made my heart rejoice. 



It sounded like a Sunday bell 



Kung softly in a lonn, 

 ' >r like a stream, that in a dell 



Korcver liicklci down. 



Ii seemed to be a voice of love 

 That always had loved me, 



Sii Miflly it rang out above — 

 So wild and wanderingly. 



' 1 f oicc, were you a golden dove, 



Or just a plain gray bird ? 

 <• \'oite, yiiu .ire mv wandering 1 .\ ■, 



Lost, yet forever heard. 



The Decay of the Yellow Press. 



In the Oriental Revicu: for February, Mr. Hamilton 

 Holt, comparing the American and Japanese Pre.ss, 

 conveys to his Japanese readers this piece of good 

 news : — 



I am happy to tell you, however, that the " yellow " press in 

 .\inerica has already reached its zenith. We now are w iinessing 

 a positive reaction against it. Though it still wields a great 

 power through its wide appeal to the masses, it is fast losing its 

 prestige as a moral and political force, and that presages the 

 dawn of a better day in American journalism as well asinler- 

 i.aiionnl relations. 



Cherif-Pasha on the Young Turks' Committee. 



The Midieroutielle, or Constitutiunnd Ottoman, for 

 January, the organ of the Ottoman Radical Party, 

 contains a vigorous indie mcnt of the Committee of 

 Union and Progress, as a new Ugolin, by its editor, 

 Cherif-Pasha. He sums up by saying : — 



All liberties are suppressed — liberty of speech, of Press, of 

 meeting, etc. There is only one institution which remains un- 

 touclied, the Court Martial. 



The Conuiiiltee of Union and Progress has completely 

 destroyed the Constitutional rule which it pretended was its 

 work. 



Like Saturn and Ugolin, it devours its children in order to 

 preserve to them a father. 



That is why we have the Committee of Union and Progress 

 without a Constitution. 



But our friends abroad are disturbed about it, and the Otto- 

 man people arc revolting against it. 



It is, in ilTfct, evident that the Kmpire will very soon partake 

 of the fate of the Constitution if this state of aff.iirs continues, 

 and that it cannot develop freely, entirely, unless disembarrassed 

 from this sanguinary parasite. Then reversing the situation 

 we shall have a Constitution without a Committee. 



Foreign Spots in London. 



Mr. |. I'Oster 1''r\si;r. pursuing; his " discovery of 

 London " in the London Magazine for March, c'es ribes 

 the habits and habitats of the 200,000 foreigners livinj' 

 within the four-mile radius. In Liniehouse Causeway 

 \ou find Chinatown ; Whitechapel is Jew land ; the 

 ("icrman colony is the oldest of foreign settlements in 

 London. There arc now about 70,000 (Jermans in 

 London, with twenty German clubs, tweKe German 

 churches, a German farm colony, several employment 

 bureaux, and two (Jerman newspapers, .'\t Forest 

 Hill there is a considerable population of Germans. 

 " Go into Soho, and it is just as though you had stepped 

 into France." The Italian colony is arounti .St. 

 Peter's Church in Hatton Garden. Hut Hatton 

 Garden is " the hotchpott h of nationalities." 



.\ regatta of motors in miniature m the pond of a 

 London park is desiribcd in March Royal bv \V, .^. 

 Williamson, There arc miniature electric launches, 

 ocean liners, and battleships. 



" Do Men's Meetings help the Churches ? " is the 

 nueslion discussed in a symposium by ministers of 

 religion in the Sunday at Home. Ihe answer is 

 emphatically in the allirmative. though it is admitted 

 that the men gencrallv 1 i.d<c no systematic contribution 

 to the Church funds. 



