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The Review of Reviews. 



A Triiimi'hant Suffragist Aged Ninety-Two. 



Tlie Twentieth Century Magazine for March contains 

 " A V'eteran Ecstasy," by Madame C. M. Severance, 

 " the mother of woman's clubs in California, and an 

 ardent Suffragist, who cast her maiden vote this year 

 at the age of ninety-two " : — 



Mine eyes behold the dawning of the glad, resplendent day, 

 When War and Strife shall cease their blind, barbaric sway. 

 For Woman comes to join her struggling, knightly Mates, 

 To make the waiting world a Brotherhood of States I 

 Glory, Glory, Alleluia ! 

 Glory, Glory, Alleluia I 

 The Race goes marching on 

 Till Peace and Joy are won ! 



Another Story of the Flood. 



Mr. Archibald Rose, speaking of the Chinese frontiers 

 of India in the Geograpliical Journal for March, des- 

 scribes the Lolos and their religious aspirations. He 

 says : — 



W'hilst thinking of the legends in which these young and half 

 savage frontier tribes seek to explain the mysteries of nature 

 and the secrets of the supernatural world, one is reminded 

 of the old flood story, wliich, with little variation, finds a 

 place in the folklore of them all. It is based always on the 

 escape from the waters of a brother and a sister, who became the 

 father and mother of ihc world, and recalls to us Ovid's " O 

 sorer, coijiinx, ofemiiui sola superstes," though the Deucalion 

 and Pyrrha of the frontier lands were not wedded until after 

 the flood-days were past. In the Lolo story the brother and 

 sister were carried over the face of the waters in a wooden 

 casket, and the first sign of the receding flood was a spray of 

 bamboo, which sprang from a rocky crevice as the first sign of 

 hope, and became for them the emblem of regeneration for all 

 time. The Kachin couple were saved in a drum, the Lisus 

 in a gourd, whilst in each case they bore sons, to whom are 

 traced ihcfamilies and tribes and nations_which people the earth 

 to-day. 



The Two Old Men of Austria. 



In the Lady's Realm Archduke-Rainer of Austria, the 

 elder cousin and counsellor of the Kaiser Franz Josef, 

 is declared to be the best-loved man in all Austria. 

 His antiquity is said to be immemorial. He has been 

 a Progressive for fifty years. He has never drunk nor 

 smoked. He has been true for sixty years to his 

 ancient wife : — 



Kaiser Franz Josef, say some, is not on the best terms with 

 The Rainer. The two match badly. Kaiser Fianz Josef, 

 though a bad sinner, is a pious old man ; whereas Rainer, 

 though a saint, is not pious enough. He thinks freely about 

 religion, art and morals ; and Kaiser Franz Josef dislikes it. 

 Moreover, the pair are rivals in antiquity, h'ranz Josef likes to 

 be thought very old, and when Queen Victoria died, and left 

 him Kuiopt's oldest sovereign, he danced in the llofburg with 

 joy. So people said. But cousin Rainer is three years his 

 senior ; and he resolutely refuses to die ; and his wealth of 

 Jubilees is a cause of constant jealousy between the two. 

 Kaiser Franz Josef has had only two Jubilees — a Golden Jubilee 

 in 1898 and a Diamond one in 1908 ; whereas the unscrupu- 

 lous Rainer seems to devise a Jubilee for every year of his life. 



Millionaires Made in Pittsburg. 



Munsey's for March contains the biography of what 

 was once styled " a string of Ainerican camels making 

 straight for the eye of the needle," or, as the writer, 



I. F. Marcosson, puts it, the millionaire yield of Pitts- 

 burg. It is a story of the fortunes made at Pittsburg in 

 coal, river and railroad traffic, coke, oil, glass, steel, 

 lumber, milk. There is the story of " success " enough 

 in these pages to fire the ambition and to warp the 

 conscience of any number of budding business men. 

 Stories are told of seventy-three, and there are a 

 hundred more. Carnegie himself is .snid to have made 

 it possible for forty men to write a seven figure cheque. 

 The writer ends by saying that these men are the 

 product of the sterling virtues of vision, energy, thrift 

 Rather do they give an impression of the enormous 

 natural wealth of the Pittsburg region. 



Dr. Fairbairn's Influence. 



Mr. R. Martin Pope, in the London Qtiarterly 

 Review, says of Fairbairn at Oxford : — 



His influence on the University was notable, because a cer- 

 tain type of Oxford thought laid far greater stress than Faiibairn 

 ever did on the ecclesiastical or institutional side of Christianity. 

 The sacramentarian: and external aspects of the Christian 

 religion never appealed to him : while its metaphysic and ethic, 

 the Chrislological ideas and the spiritual, essential implications 

 of the historic facts of the faith received at his hands a profounti 

 and sympathetic interpretation. As an idealist and an inheritor 

 of the spirit of Greek theology, he had no place in his system of 

 thought for a religion of authority. Perhaps he never did full 

 justice to the Latin and Augustinian type of theology, nor to 

 what Dr. Forsyth calls " the centrality of the Cross," nor to 

 the depth and warmth of experimental religion : but he is 

 to be judged, like every great theologian, by the work he 

 actually accomplished on the lines marked out for him by his 

 peculiar genius and temperament ; and upon this there can be 

 but one verdict. 



The Morals of Glasgow. 



In a sketch which the Sunday at Home gives of 

 Glasgow, its social and moral condition, the writer 

 says :— - 



It is generally agreed, too, that the materialism of several 

 years .ago, with the anti-Christian influence of Blatchford, is 

 vanishing. The effect of Blatchford's writings is admitted, but 

 that of those books of Ilaeckel, which "erect temples to the 

 ether," is considered negligible, especially among the working 

 classes. 



Betting is on the increase, drunkenness is on the 

 decrease. A still darker evil is being vehemently 

 canvassed and discussed. 



Japanese View of the Chinese Revolution. 



The Taiyo for March says : — 



Geographically and politically considered, Japan in Asia 

 occupies the position of England in Europe, and China may 

 well aspire to that of France since the Revolution. Hut after 

 all, we think the Chinese revolution is an event without parallel 

 in history. The reigning Imperial Family and their retinue 

 assenting to their own abolition and at once ordeiing the 

 establ'shment of a republic, recognising it as the will of the 

 peop'ic on the whole, is an event unheard of in the annals of the 

 world. There will lie no trial of the late Sovereign, there will 

 be no execution of the deposed King, there will be no expulsion 

 of the Royal Family out of the country. Indeed, it does credit 

 to the whole of the Chinese people. It proves how peaceful 

 and amiable are tlie nation and how utterly wrong and ground- 

 less is the so-called " Yellow Peril " as understood by some 

 people in the West. 



