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THE INDIAN WOKLD. 



Tlie Indian Wmld is tlie mast interesting and sug- 

 gestive periodical that reachets this office from Hindo- 

 stau. It<5 editor is an editor. He has a faith, and he 

 preaches it, and the selections which he makes from 

 Indian and Anglo-Indian publications are varied and 

 thoroughly up-to-date. There is an interesting ac- 

 count of two great pilgrim gatherings — at Allahabad 

 anil at the Temple of Juggernaut. It is something 

 ■of a shock to learn that the enthusiasm of the devo- 

 tees is insufficient to stand the strain of dragging the 

 famous car a mile and a half through the sand : " for 

 when the first day's excitement was over many of the 

 pilgrims cleared off, and the haixl work of dragging 

 the wooden-wheeled chariots through the heavy sand 

 was nniversaly shirked. Finally, hired labour had to 

 do the needful." 



In one article we arc told, on the authority of Mrs. 

 Steel, that 



It i3 well to tell the truth solidly sometimes, and the 

 truth is this: in sexual matters the standard of national 

 morality is far higher in India, than it is in England. 



And in India there lies an ideal of what woman should 

 be, which is the highest that the world has ever known. 



In another a Hindoo lady declares that " Modern 

 India does not know how to pay respects to women, 

 and i.s robbing them of their rights and privileges, 

 domestic and proprietary." 



There are articles on the Permanent Settlement, on 

 Gold Mining in India, etc. There is a good deal of 

 miscellaneous information. Among other items I note 

 the extraordinary immunity of Europeans from the 

 plague. Last year in Bombay Presidency 250,000 na- 

 tives died of the plague and only 10 Europeans. In 

 the previous year the figures were 316.000 natives 

 and only eight Europeans. 



Lk REVUE. 



M. .lean Einot. the editor of Lu Ifeciie, contributes 

 to the firet March number another of his articles on 

 the science of loiigevit.v. The present chapter is en- 

 titled •' The Secrets of Youth," and is a discour.se on 

 some of the remedies, past and present, for preserv- 

 ing youthfulnees. 



THE EUXTB OP LONG LIFE. 



He first refers to the " Herniippus Kedivivu.';." a 

 work published by Dr. I. H. Cohausen at Frankfort 

 in 1742. This German doctor recommended as an in- 

 fallible remedy against old age the keeping of the 

 tired and worn body in close contact with another 

 body ymuig and vigorous. This remedy, which dates 

 back to the days of David, was also believed in by 

 Knger Bacon and other philosophers. Dr. Cohausen 

 ito.s numerous cases of men whose lives were pro- 

 limged in this way, and Louis Cornaro attributed his 

 old age to the presence of young i)eople in his sur- 

 Triiindiugs. 



Phe .lewLsh and the Roman doctors had recourse to 



arious means to lengthen life, including such reme- 

 dies as the fat of the lion, the skin of the chameleon, 

 and the blood of children and adults, and their ob- 

 ject wa.s merely to increjise the heat of the bod.v. 



But if we cannot do anHhing that will make youth 

 eternal, we can do much to pre.sene it for a good 

 long time. The pai.idox that man does not die. but 

 that he slowly kills himself, is in many cases quite 

 true. M. Finot does not attempt to enumerate all 

 the caiKses de.';tructive of youth, but concludes by a 

 few words on one of the most mischievou.s — namel.v, 

 over-oating. We are, he says, victims of over-eating, 

 AVe eat and 'I rink and work without paying the 

 elighte.st heed to the nee<lfi of the bodv, or rather 



when we du consider the body it ifc usually to act 

 contrary to its normal requirements. The poor are 

 decim.ated by drink, while the rich die of over-feed- 

 ing. The privations of hunger are less dangerous 

 than alimentary excess. 



RACES IN BELGIUM. 



Another interesting paper in the same number 

 deals with the Races in Belgium. Under the title of 

 "French, Flemish, and Walloons," Henri Jolly de- 

 scribes the leading characteristics of the Flemish and 

 tlie Walloons and compares them with the French. 

 According to Kurth, the territory of the Flemish 

 race extends from the South-West to the North-Ea'st 

 of Belgium, with a central line from Dunkerque to 

 Alaestricht. including Flanders, Brabant, Aritwerp. 

 and Limburg, while the Walloon race occupies the 

 valley of the River Meuse and the Sambre Canal — 

 Hainault, Liege, Xamur, Luxemburg, and the Ar- 

 dennes. 



.\s a race, the Flemish are described as laborious, 

 sober, religious, and attached to traditions. From 

 the familv point of view there is a marked difference 

 between the Flemish and the Walloons. The Flemisli 

 families of six. ten, and twelve children are common, 

 and Camille Jacquard ob.'^erves that if the number 

 of births among the Flemish continues at the present 

 rate, and the number among the Walloons continues 

 to decrease in the proportion prevailing to-day, the 

 Walloon region will be completely submerged by the 

 Flemish in fifty years. 



PEACE AXD A>'TI-MILITAEIS.M. 

 .\i,atole Leroj-Beaulieu contributes to the second 

 ISIaich number an article entitled " Peace, Chris- 

 tianitv, and .4nti-Militarism." He says certain anti- 

 inilitarists in France preach disarmament to the na- 

 tion aii<l desertion to the soldiers, but fortunately all 

 the apostles of peace are not quite so blind. The writer 

 considers war an evil, but he is obliged to admit that 

 of all the countries of Europe, France, by its geo- 

 graphical position and the configuration of its fron- 

 tiers, is the most exposed to the danger of war. To 

 acquire the right to live in peace France ought to be 

 sufficientl.v strong to remain a free and independent 

 nation, and to preach disarmament is a most dan- 

 gerous proceeding. .\t the present moment the anti- 

 militarist propaganda appears a menace to the peac'e 

 of France and of Europe. 



THE REVUE DES DEUX MONDES. 



In the first March number of the Itenic <lrx Petix 

 Mrmdrs M. Kouire writes on the English and .Afghan- 

 istan and the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of March. 1905. 



ENGLANB AND AFGHANISTAN. 

 The .'\ngIo-Afghan Treaty, he says, carries on the 

 pulitical work of Britain begun in Afghanistan nearly 

 a century ago with a view to the defence of India. 

 Politically this work of the Anglo-Indian Government 

 is to create confidence between Afghanistan and Eng- 

 land, and to profit by this confidence to make Eng- 

 lanj master of Afghanistan. The writer enumerates 

 the various obstacles which have come in the way of 

 this policy from time to time — the unwillingness of 

 the .\fglian.s to fall in with British views and the 

 Ku.ssian penetration into Central Asia. Since .Af- 

 ghanistan ha.s become the chief element in the de- 

 tence,s of India, he considers in detail the military 

 importance of Afghanistan in case of an invasion of 

 India — the role Afghanistan has played in the p.T.^t 

 from this point of view, the circumstances which 

 have led Britain to recogni.se its strategic value, the 

 significance of the Treaty, and the future of Anglo- 

 Russian relations in Central Asia. He thinks it pes- 



