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The Reviews Reviewed. 



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THE STRAND MAGAZINE. 



In the Strand ilagazine the symposium seems to 

 have entirely ousted tlie interview. In the April num- 

 ber «e hiive two symposiums — the first, " My Best 

 I'iece of Light Verse," in which Mr. Owen Seaman, 

 Mr. \V. S. Gilbert, :Mr. R. C. Lehmann, and other 

 writers of hiinuirous poetry select their favourite com- 

 position; and the other, a symposium of German 

 painters, edited by Adrian Margaux, in which several 

 artists select the picture by which they prefer to be 

 introduced to the readers of the Strand Magazine. 



Mrs. Herbert Vivian contributes an article on 

 Baron 'l':uiohnitz and the Tauclinitz Edition of Bri- 

 tish and American Authors, and quotes some of the 

 letters wliidh the Lfcipzig House has received from the 

 \ariovis authors whose works have appeared in their 

 famous "Collection." The first volume of the series, 

 Lord Lytton's " Pelham," was published in 1841, and 

 in 18()0 the five-hundredth volume was reached. Now 

 the number is nearly 4(X)0, about eighty volumes 

 beinp; added each year. 



In another article the Ranee of Sarawak describes 

 a day spent in Kuching, to her "the prettiest plaoc 

 in tlie world." A great tidal river cuts the town in 

 two, and the Ranee gives us a charming picture, not 

 of the Knglish or lOuropean portion of the town, bvit 

 the more interesting native portion. The bazaar is 

 more a Chinese street than anj-t-hing else, and the 

 Kanee thinks the Chinese " absolutely necessary to 

 tile development of a tropical countr.y. Their energy 

 IS amazing, and their power of work something ex- 

 tiaordinary.'' 



THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. 



The London Quarterly lieview for April has less 

 than usual of the metaphysical and theological ele- 

 ment and more of interest for the general reader. Mr. 

 W. B. Dalby indulges in a rapt appreciation of Mae- 

 terlinck. He declares that the consciousness of the 

 Divine Life is at the basis of all his thinking, and 

 that always " as the real Leader of humanity he 

 seems to see Jesus Christ Himself." Professor J. S. 

 Banks treats of the literary aspects of the Old Testa- 

 ment, for in that field, he thinks, Scripture will easily 

 iiold its own. The Editor contributes a very pleasant 

 article on Holnian Hunt and hLs art and his acquaint- 

 ances. Professor Garvie contributes a thoroughly 

 good piece of work in an argument for foreign mis- 

 sions, which takes a commanding survey of modern 

 objections. Mr. A. S. Way find^ relics of ancient 

 .\ryan folldore in Shakespeare. Professor Lofthquse 

 lakes occasion from the monotheism of the Masai, a 

 puzzling tribe of l<:ast Central Africa, to argue for 

 an original monotheism revealed to the race, by Israel 

 chietly^recogniscd and retained. Wireless telegraphy 

 also comes in for a study by P. James. 



THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. 



The March number is exceptionally good. Tlie 

 love of wealth and the public service are con- 

 trasted in a very tlioughtful analysis of motives 

 by Mr. F. W. Taussig. The writer points out 

 tliat the system of constitutional checks pervad- 

 ing in Americiu democracy rather tends to hinder 

 (aptains of industry of high motive entering political 

 life, but he ends with characteristic American op- 

 timism. He says, "Our political machinery is im- 

 proving: the worship of wealth is diminishing; the 

 respoet for public service is increasing. Men of cha- 

 racter and capacitv will win in the long run the suf- 

 frage of the p<ople." Mr. G. W. Alger exposes the 

 emptiness of the "freedom of contract " which 

 American judges have been upholding at the expense 



of Labour, and complains that the workers' discon- 

 tent with the law lies in the fact that it guarantees 

 them individual and not social or industrial freedom. 



John Corbin laments the realistic pictorial scenery 

 which transmogrifies the great Shakespearean master- 

 pieces, but rejoices that there is a strong and grow- 

 ing minority of intelligent people who prefer their 

 Shakespeare harmoniously produce<l on a stage th.at, 

 instead of destroying the effect which Shakespeare in- 

 tended, reali.ses "it to the utmost. The Elizabethan 

 tradition avoids the expense which has so often 

 proved ruinous. 



"The Ue.d Man's Last Roll-call" is the title that 

 Mr. C. M. Harvey gives to the dis,solution of the 

 tribal organisation of the Cherokees, Choctaws. 

 Creeks, C'hickasaws and Seminoles, which was to take 

 place on tlie 4th of March. " The epoch of the Ameri- 

 can Indian is closed." Henceforth, the American is 

 absorbed in the general citizenship of the United 

 States. The total Indian population of the United 

 States, exclusive of Alaska, is said to be 270,000. 

 When Columbus landerl they probably did not exceed 

 000,000 or 800,000. Mr. Harvey insists that the 

 .\merican red man taught the American white nian 

 how to fight in the modern way with open formation, 

 individu.il initiative and pursuit of cover. At pre- 

 sent 30.01)0 Indians are attending school, 40,000 are 

 members of churches, 70,000 talk English, most of 

 them w-ear civili.sed clothes, onlv 20,000 blanketed In- 

 dians are left in the United t^tates. There is fair 

 prospect that the Indian will maintain his place 

 among other citizens. 



Mr. George Hodges reports that the books of re- 

 ligion which are being widely read at present are of 

 the Liberal sort, not of the scared and scandalised 

 Conservative order. There are good literary articles 

 on Anatole France, Letters of Walpole, and the 

 .statesmanship of Turgot. 



THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. 



The Enf/inecring Magazine for April has a great 

 deal of human interest in it. Mr. Becker's " Square 

 Deal in Works Management " has been separately 

 ;ioticed. I\lr. F. L. Waldo describes the process of pre- 

 paring the isthmus for canal construction work, and 

 shows^how the Augean stables of Soanish and French 

 insanitation h.ave been cleansed Viy the American 

 Hercules. The illustrations give a very pleasing im- 

 pression of tlie streets and dwellings, hospitals and 

 cars which American sanitary science has introduced. 

 The question of the respective relations of the execu- 

 tive and the engineering officers in the Navy is dis- 

 cussed in two papers, one as affecting the American 

 and the other as affecting the British Navy. 



MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. 



JfacmiUan'x ^fnlJazinr for this month has several 

 good papers, one of which, dealing with British 

 Columbia, is separately noticed. 



BAD BREAD AND THE BRITISH PUBLIC. 



Mr. Francis Fox, writing about "Bread." says 

 that his article on the same subject last year brought 

 him much correspondence, showing that if the trade 

 does know why white bread is so often unwholesome 

 the general public does not. Yet it is the public in 

 general whom he blames for the amount of bad bread 

 sold, not the millers ami bakers, who merely .supply 

 what the public demands. White bread, very white, 

 the public insists upon; and white bread it gets, not 

 now wliitene<l artificially, but by the abstraction of 

 the most valuable elements in the wheat. White 

 bread is still the bast, but not snow-white, " ansemio " 

 bread. 



