The Review of Reviews. 



THE YOUNG M i.N'S MlGAZINE. 



The Yoany Man's Muijfiziiie ti>i April is quite up to 

 the mark. It opens witli a desciiptiim of the " Auck- 

 land District Amuial Bible Claav KiKanipment." Then 

 follows a very cojuise and biisine^--like paper on 

 "Organised P'pr.soual Work." The Kev. A. R. Osborn 

 contributes ' Fights lor the Faith." His account of 

 the persecutions of tie earl.v Christians at Rome 

 thrilKs. Mr. G. Laurenson replies to the Rev. Alex. 

 AN'hvte's query in a previous article, 'Should the Ac- 

 cumulation of Wealth bv Ijidividuals be Restricted?" 

 Mr. Lauren~on believes in vuch interference, and 

 states lus reason forcibly. 'J'heip are other articles 

 equall.v interesting. 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Sir Herbfir Maxuell and Mr. Herbert Paul divide 

 the chroiiifjiir between them. Mr. R. G. Wilberforco 

 writes briefly and sensibly on the education of conntTv 

 children. 



THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 



Mr. Charles Barry explains, with the aid of a plan 

 and a sketch, how. in his opinion, the seating capacit.v 

 of the Hou.>e could be enlarged so as t-o give every 

 memljer a seat. At the same time he would doidde 

 the Ladies" Gallery and increa.=e the accommodation 

 for reporters from 3S to Go. He says : — 



The new ilivisiou lobbies would be constructed res| eo- 

 tively in the Commons Court and the Star Chamber 

 Court, slisbtly diminishing their present area, it is true, 

 bat not to sucli extent a.s to materiall.v interfere with ;he 

 light and air the.v afford to rooms o|>enine- upon them. 

 Tn© Hous« can thu.s he altered and enlarffei without any 

 interference with Sessional business, and ^rfthotit nnn nece^- 

 sity for a temimrory Ilouie, such as was apprehended bv the 

 Committee of 1B68. 



THE ARMINO OF CHINA. 

 Tlio lit \ . .1. Hardv. Chaplain of the Forces in 

 Hong Koni;. recalls the fact that China was not al- 

 ways pacific. Six centtiries before Christ. 



So much did the martial spirit prevail that the Prince 

 of the Wu State or Province established two corps of femole 

 soldiers. The ladies, however, siesled and laughed in the 

 ranks until at length the commanding officer of each corps 

 was beheaded for failing to maintain discipline. The corrs 

 then became very efficient. 



China is now arming : — 



It is said that there are at present ten divisions, or 

 120,000 men. in the new arm.v. properly equipped and trained 

 by foreigners. It is hoped tliat within the nest ten years 

 the numbers will mount up to half a million. Napoleon s-.iid 

 at St. Helena. " Wlien China is moved it will change the 

 face of the globe." Well. China is moved with a vengeance 

 for past bad treatment, and some will have cause to regret 

 that sleeping dogs were not allowed to lie. 



MR. HENNIKEE HEATONS NEW DEMANT). 

 Mr. Hoiiiiiker Heaton pleads for the abolition of 

 public patronage in Gi'eat Britain. He sa.vs : — 



This evil was. not nian.v years ago. rampant in Australia. 

 It is now unknown there. Instead of allowing public ser- 

 vants to prescribe the amount of salary each is to receive, 

 to badger ilinisters for api)ointment5. and to threaten con- 

 scientiou.s meml>ers with defeat at elections, each State 

 Parliament has transferred the appointment, control, and 

 i>emun©ration of civil servants to an indei^eudent tribunal, 

 constituted for the purpose, called " The Public Service 

 Beard." The Board is composed of three members, irre- 

 movable, like our High Oonrt judges, except by the vote 

 of both Hottses. It inquires into the qualifications of appli- 

 cants, determines 'like our Civil Service Commission) the 

 nature of the examinations held for the higher classes, 

 regulates 'by comparison with the wages paid b.v private 

 employers for similar worki the remuneration for each 

 claafl. " recommends all appointments and promotions, and 

 hears all appeals and complaints. 



FIRE PROTECTION IN LONDON. 

 Mr. A. M. Watson calls attention to the fact that 

 bv the .\ct nassed last session amending the London 



building Acts new rules for the pi-eservation of life 

 from fire have come into force. Writing apparently 

 Inst year, he says : — 



On the Ist of January. 19.6. there will, in tlie first place, 

 be 7700 and odd illegal London shops, the owners of which 

 may be called upon to e^iiend a sum variously estimated at 

 froin £450,000 to £750.000 and odd; secondly, there will l-.e an 

 unknown number of houses of more than thirty feet in 

 heigllt. the owners of which may be called upon to expend 

 from £5 to £10 on each house in proyiciing statutory means 

 of access to the roofs; thirdly, there will be an increased 

 expenditure immediately required to make all bnilflings in 

 process of construction comply with the provisions of the 

 new Act: and, lastly, the owners of high buildings and 

 twenty-person buildiiigs should le preparing to meet the 

 rules tor existing buildings which will he affected on the 

 1st of January, 1907. The outlay under this head has been 

 estimated at "from £500 to £600 for each building. 



"THE PAPAL ATTACK ON FRANCE." 

 Mr. R. Dell discusses the probable attitude of the 

 Catholic Church in relation to the law separating 

 Clniicli and State. He says : — 



If Catholics accept the law. with whatever motives or 

 intent thev will be left unmolested; but it will be a truce, 

 not a peace between Church and State, if Catholics 1» 

 organised as a political party to promote wluit are cal.cd 

 the "interests" — which always mean worldly interest - 

 o'' the Church. The French people is irrevocably, fnii' i- 

 mentally anti-clerical; it has been so for centuries, and ;•_ 

 will always be so; and the Church has no hope of regain- 

 ing religious influence unless and until it is prepared to 

 abandon all attempt to gain political influence. The choice 

 has to l>e made; and it the Church, or Rome, chooses 

 political influence, it will infallibly lose both. 



THE NEW REGIME AT THE ADMIRALTY. 

 Sir W. H. White shakes his head over the new 

 iviiime at the Admiralty. He criticises the official 

 statement of the way in which tlie savings have been 

 effected. He says ■ — 



Obviously this condition of affairs cannot be perpetuated 

 without serious detriment to the efficiency of the Koyal 

 Navv and it is as necessary to make adequate provision 

 for maintenance of completed ships as to provide for new 

 construction on a proper scale. 



He deprecates the policy of eoncealnient . and says: — 

 The naval policy of the Biitish Empire is a great public 

 interest, if not the greatest. It is contrary to precedent to 

 shut out the public from information in regard to the great 

 lines of policy embodied in our naval constructiou. No 

 committee, however constituted, can be justified in demand- 

 ing blind confidence in its conclusions; no Board ot Ad- 

 miralty is justified in refusing information ut the nature 

 above described 



THE MONTHLY REVIEW. 



The Monfhhj Serieic is particularly full of interest 

 this month. 



MR. MORLEY-AN ETCHING. 



Mr. Algernon Cecil contributes a paper on Mr. 

 .Tohn Morlev. which can Ije compared with an etch- 

 iiio better than with a portrait. The school of thought 

 which Mr. Morlev embodies moie fully than any liv- 

 ing man "is fast dying out. Liberalism, in any in- 

 telligible sense, will not last another generation, 

 And'it is just because English Liberalism is " flicker- 

 inc with all the power of the expiring candle "that 

 the opinions of its stoutest champion are peculiarly 

 interesting. The article, if not exactly a tribute to 

 Mr. Morlev as a politician, in spite of the writer's 

 admiration of " his shrewd generalisations on public 

 policy," evidently credits him with having exercised 

 and still exercising a profound influence on th« 

 thought of the present generation. For Mr. Morlev's 

 style°i[r. Cecil has an admiration as sincere as dis- 

 criminating. After all, Mr. Moiley's own description 

 of Burke applies equally to him.ielf — that he "has 

 the sacred gift of inspiring men to iise a grave dili- 

 gence in caring for high things and in making their 

 lives at once rich and austere." 



