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The Review of Reviews. 



June 1, 19013. 



THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW. 



A posthumous, article by Mr. G. J . Holyoake ap- 

 pears in the Independent Ueview, on Woman Sui- 

 trage, in which lie makee the following suggestion, 

 which 1 do not remember having seen before: — 



Why should not women who desire the suffrage form an 

 Electoral College iu every borough, aud ask that every 

 hundred women members of the College should be legally 

 entitled to nominate one of their Order to vote iu the elec- 

 tion of members of Parliament for their borough? This 

 would give every thousand women ten representatives at 

 the polls. 



Mr. Holyoake's forecast of the coiiseqiienoes of 

 granting women the suffrage has been singularly well 

 justified by events in New Zealand. He prophesied — 



that it would produce great satisfaction and little ciiange. 

 as too few women were politically-minded enough to use it. 



.Mr. fyril .lacksou's chief suggestions iu his paper 

 on "Flaws in Jileinentary Education" are smaller 

 clas.ses and sections of classes; quarterly instead of 

 annual promotions; and more individual study. It is 

 a sensible paper. 



Mr. W. J. Fisher, ex-Liberal candidate for Canter- 

 bury, writes on electoral abuses. Canvassing he con- 

 siders valueless, if not mischievous — a question raised 

 at the meeting of the Hardwicke Society last month, 

 when it was decided that canvassing ought not to be 

 abolislied : and he also complains of votere being 

 treated by friends of the candidate who are not act- 

 ing as his accredited agents, and of the distribution 

 of tickets for focKl, etc.. and other but more delicately 

 veiled forms of bribery. 



Writing on 'The Taxation of ^Monopolies " Mr. J. 

 A. Hobson says that there is the same justification 

 for a graduated income tax as for taxing ■ uuearneil 

 increment." The State iu either case takes those 

 portions of the national wealth which represent the 

 product of public activities. He admits that what is 

 produced through public is rarely clearly separable 

 from what is produced by Individual activities: but 

 says that in spite of that, a taxable fund of socially 

 created income exists ■ ample to meet the expendi- 

 ture involved ill the measures of social reform which 

 figure to-day upon the platfonn of practical politics." 



SOME ILLUSTRATED .MAGAZINES. 



PEARSONS M.\G.\Z1XE 



In the April number of PcdTson's Magazine there 

 is an interview, by Gordon Meggy, with Mr. Fred 

 Pegram, in the series of Masters of Black and White. 

 Mr. i'ogram prefer.* to refu.se a commission rathei' 

 than hurry his work. The editor discusses the Hous- 

 ing Que.^tion as a pressing problem of to-day. One- 

 eighth is statetl to be a fair proportion of rent 

 to income. But in some parts of London 46 per 

 cent, of the dwellers pay one-third of their income as 

 rent. In the country, as in the towns, the conditions 

 are in many cases extremely bad. Town Councils 

 would do more had they a fund other than the rates, 

 and it is .suggested that the taxation of ground values 

 would raise the money for muuicipal housing schemes. 

 The case of Liverpool is cited as a successful provider 

 of houses for the poorest of the poor. The Liverpool 

 Corporation has carried out twelve schemes for 1666 

 tenements. The average earnings of each family is 

 15s. a week, and rents vary from Is. 6d. for a single 

 room on the third iloor to -as. 6d. for four rooms on 

 the ground floor. But the standard of decency and 

 comfoit cannot be .S45 high in a black dwelling in a 

 town as iu a cottage in a garden suburb, and the real 

 solution of the housing difficulty in London lies in 

 the removing of factories from the town to the coun- 

 try, and iu the building of new garden cities. 



C. B. FBYS MAGAZINE. 

 Mr. Fry continues to insist on his favourite theme 

 that British games must be supplemented by the na- 

 tional adoption of ride shooting, that we may become 

 a nation of marksmen. He enlarges on the precedent 

 set by the Swiss, and gives as a fiontispiece \\ uthrich's 

 picture of Wilhelm Tell and his sou, •• the first of 

 Swiss marksmen." Mr. Edward Step shows how gar- 

 dens may be adorned with " borders beautiful," aud 

 adorns his paper with many beautiful photograplis. 

 Canon Mcdormack is adduced by the editor as a 

 famous Cambridge " Blue," and captain of the Cam- 

 bridge ciieket team in 1856. He was one of the win- 

 ning crew in the '\'arsity boat-race fifty years ago, 

 distinguished himself in high jump and lon^ jump 

 and boxing, and still, in his 72nd year, addresses 

 large congregations in the open air iu Piccadilly. 

 Cycling, golf and football are the chief sports referred 

 to. Mr. P. A. Vale enumerates things John Bull 

 may learn from his sons. The Colonial charge is that 

 the home country- clings loo faithfully to obsolete no- 

 tions. The Grand Stand at Epsom is denounced as 

 being very badly constructed, the saddling paddock 

 a disgraceful anachronism. He urges that hor.ses 

 should be identified by numbers on the saddlecloth, 

 rather tlian by their colours. He strongly protests 

 against the abuse of the whistle by the referee in 

 football. He objects to the English tenuis grip, and 

 generally insists that .John Bull is getting perilously 

 near his second childhood. 



CASSELLS MAGAZINE. 

 The story of Mr. Harry de Wimlt, told by Mr. Ray- 

 mond Blatbwayt, is the opening article in the April 

 number of CaxseU's M'nja-.ine. Mr. de Windt's life 

 has been full of adventure. He him.self says : — 



Many years ago I went to Borneo as A.D.C. to my 

 brothev-in-law. the Rajah of Sarawak. My iife in the Far 

 East, aud all that I saw of Orientalism, fired a natural de- 

 sire for constant change into au enthusiasm for travel and 

 exploration. But I almost invariably allow myself to be 

 guided b.v tiie inspiration of the moment. 



Mr. de Windt has published many songs, though 

 he has never bad a music lesson in his life, and he is 

 an adept ac palmistry. 



Mr. .Tames A. Manson contributes an article on the 

 Dulwicli Picture Gallery, • an art shrine in a wood." 

 Though the gallery is only five miles distant from St. 

 Paul's, tew Londoners visit it: but this neglect is 

 atoned for by country cousins and foreigners. The 

 Dutch aud Flemish Schools are well represented, and 

 it is asserted that Dulwich Gallery contains a greater 

 number of first-class pictures by Albert Cuvp tliaa 

 anv other gallery in the world. 



In an article on the Cotton Growei-s, bv G. T. Teas- 

 dale-Biickell. the writer says it is not true that there 

 are no negro slaves in the United States South, for 

 he saw some working in chains at Atlanta about a 

 year ago. Under dread of lash and rifle, and watched 

 bv two white men, tliev were cutting roads through 

 the battlefield. 



HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



Ildrprr'f: Miigazme has unearthed some hitherto 

 unpublished letters of Dickens, written from Switzej- 

 land to the Watsons, to whom " David Copperfield " 

 was dedicated. Mr. W. D. Howells describes the Eng- 

 lish Washington Country — Northampton and the vil- 

 lage of Little Brington near. The magazine, as a 

 whole, is rather too American in interest for most 

 English readers. A scientific article deals with 

 "Chemistry in the World's Food" — the effect of 

 chemical manures in increasing the yield from plants. 

 Illustrations are given of mustard, wheat, oats, and 

 carrots grown with and without fertilisers, show- 

 ing the striking results obtained by the use of the 

 best fertiliser for the individual plant. 



