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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



which her superfluous population can 

 emigrate, and lay the foundation of a 

 trans-maritime Germany. We are met 

 here with the apparently irrefutable 

 argument that all the good places in the 

 world are taken. But can any serious 

 student of colonial history suppose for 



a moment that the colonial atlas is fin- 

 ally " coloured " ? Hardl\' a year goes 

 by without changes. Is there any rea- 

 son to presume that a final settlement 

 has been made? Is there, forsooth, such 

 a thing as a finally coloured map as 

 long as the human race is alive ? 



WOMAN'S INTERESTS. 



WOMAN'S WAR. 



Elizabeth Robins appears in McClnres 

 this month as an extreme sujjporter of 

 the tactics of the "militants"; she re- 

 counts the whole miserable history of 

 the past seven years and suggests that 

 the conspiracy of silence was responsible 

 for the later and more acute stages of 

 the movement. Miss Robins is grateful 

 for the co-operation of men: — 



Never in all t/ho years of woimMr.s wandi^r- 

 ing in the political wilderness, never l>efore 

 milit^mcy did men form societies to lielji 

 women to win freedom. Before history was 

 written, men, as the soni^s and sagas tell us, 

 did battle for women, osten,s:ihly for some 

 " fair Ladye," often in reality for the excite- 

 ment of the tourney and the honour of the 

 knight. Until tht^e days of the now mili- 

 tiancy, few Mere the men who entered the 

 lists to do battle for women in srim. unpic- 

 tiiresque neeil, women who could never re- 

 ward these latter-day knig-lits, and were not 

 aske<l for re« a id. 



Never, before the days of militancy, have 

 men for such a cause given up valuabh^ jvosts. 

 risked livelihcxxJ, sacrificed aml)ition, facetl 

 private ridicule and public execration, blows, 

 broken limliis, gone to prison -all tliat is 

 since militancy. 



The writer permits some bitterness to 

 cloud her advocacy: — 



Hut we 7nust not expect to see the scales fall 

 oversoon firom the general eye. The old 

 superciliousness will be long in dying. 

 Women will mark it still in its tlioiisand 

 forms. esi>eci.ally in the elderly-minded. 

 INIen will go on U'aively crowning one anotlier. 

 l>e>stowing on one anotlier all the lucrative 

 and power-conferring posts and all the sine- 

 cures. They will sit sole sex on the great 

 committees, contirolling art and science, as 

 well as law and administrative government. 



They will dine in fulness, and permit 

 women to come in afterward like the good 

 children — save that, unlike the children, 

 women will l>e bidden to sit apart and not 

 speak, brit li.«ten — feeding upon the mamia 

 of masculine eloquence. 



Many will differ from Miss Robins 

 when she says : — 



Women have come to feel that militant 

 sufFragism is the outgrowth of a fierce race- 

 protecting passion. It is the expression of 

 tliat mothea-instinct which rules in tlie spirit 

 as well as in the body of our half of tlie 

 world. It is the force that doi\s indee<l make 

 the female more deadly flian the male, if 

 .she d(^®cries a menace to iter charge — the 

 futiire'of the specia-;. 



WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN V S.\ 



At the November elections the women 

 suffragists annexed three more Ameri- 

 can States, sa\-s a writer in the Chan- 

 tangnctn. They were Arizona, Kansas, 

 and Oregon. The last-named reversed 

 a previous unfavourable verdict ; in the 

 other two the question was presented 

 for the first time. In Wisconsin, Ohio, 

 and Michigan the proposal was de- 

 feated in 191 2 The victory in the 

 three-first-named States was so great 

 that not even the " antis " or the Con- 

 servative Press ventured to belittle it. 

 There are now nine States with woman 

 suffrage in the Union. Wyoming led 

 in 1890, Colorado followed in 1893, 

 Utah and Idaho in 1896. Washington in 

 1910, California in 191 i. and Kansas, 

 Arizona and Oregon in 191 2. Other 

 States will not hesitate much longer. To 

 the average man nothing is so convinc- 

 ing as an object-lesson. Women are in 

 politics to stay, and they will soon par- 

 ticipate in national legislation and ad- 

 ministration. Already they have been 

 sitting on juries. They divide on party 

 lines as men do, and there is no such 

 thing as a solid woman vote. 



THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR 

 WOMEN. 



Miss Dorothy M. Zimmern. writing 

 in Wouen's Industruil News, draws at- 

 tention to the " progress " as affecting 

 women which the Trade Boards have 



