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The Review of Reviews. 



THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. 



With the .\pril number the Oxjoid and Caiiihriilge 

 Review begins as a monthly pubUcation. For the first 

 four years it appeared thrice in the vear, once in each 

 term ; then it became a quarterly ; and now it is a 

 iionthh'. It avows itself to be Conservative, but with 

 1 Conservatism that is different from that of Party 

 aolitics. It is based on a conviction that the institu- 

 [ions of society, such as marriage, respect for private 

 property, and the binding force of contracts, are 

 'undamental and sacred. It will give prominence to 

 :he religious and social conditions of the Continent, 

 .vhere Liberalism is logically identified with atheism, 

 fhat it is now in Roman Catholic hands appears from 

 ;he fact that it states, " We shall be careful, in dealing 

 .vith matters of religion, in no way to close our columns 

 ;o writers not of the Roman 

 Catholic faith." The editor 

 ■ecognises that it is well- 

 ligh impossible at this 

 ime of day to withhold 

 :he vote from women. He 

 ■eems prepared to cham- 

 pion the cause of Polish 

 anity. 



Mr. F. E. Smith traces 

 ;he present industrial un- 

 ■est to the history and com- 

 nitments of the Liberal 

 jovernment since 1906. or 

 'ven a little earlier, when 

 he present Lord Gladstone, 

 IS Chief Liberal Whip, sur- 

 endered so many safe 

 liberal seats to Labour 

 ■andidates who would 

 never have entered the 

 Chamber at Westminster 

 )na three-cornered fight. 

 Ihe Trade Disputes .\ct 

 narked the commence- 

 ncnt of Mr. Asquith's 

 lownward grade. After 

 laving stated that the 



I'rime Minister pandered to the miners when they 

 iought to coerce the mine-owners, who are mostly 

 !"onservative, Mr. Smith goes on to declare that a 

 ,'reater responsibility rests upon Ministers than has 

 onfronted any English Government within li\ing 

 nemorv. " They are the trustees of society as a whole." 



The Catholic trend of the magazine is seen in the 

 irtides on the Church in Spain by the Bishop of 

 ''.amboanga. in which we are told that Spain is really 

 .atholic, and that the only open enemies of the Church 

 ire confined to a small minority of the working-classes 

 n large cities ; and in a paper by Flavien Hrenier, in 

 .vhich he sets up the common Catholic antithesis of 

 Frecmasonrv I'ersiis Christianity. 



Sir William IJull, .M.I'., continues his very valuable 

 jurvey of the progress of Socialism in the different 



nations of the world, under the title of " The Red 

 Flood." He declares it an increasingly popuhir, false 

 creed, making for the ruin of society and civilisation. 

 The Rev. I. Gregory Smith contrasts the brothers 

 Newman. 



THE ARENA. 



The April number is again notable for its repro- 

 ductions of L'niversity buildings ; the frontispiece 

 showing the Virgins' Porch, St. Mary's, Oxford, is a 

 joy to behold. There is a historical survey of " The 

 High," the famous Oxford street, with many photo- 

 graphs of the historic structures. We reproduce one of 

 Queen's College. A special feature is an account bv the 

 Rev. J. W. E. Conybeare of Cambridge fifty vears ago. 

 He went up as an undergraduate in 1862, and resides 



■aphed hy Dr, R. G. Lyman for tJu " Arena"'^ 



Queen's College, Oxford. 



at Cambridge at the present day. He shows photo- 

 graphs of then and now, which show alterations small 

 to the unobservant eye, but significant of much to 

 Cambridge men. There is also an account of Rugby 

 .School, with charming illustrations. There is besides 

 a sketch by J. McCleery, of the Corinthians, with 

 a coloured portrait of " Sammy "■ — S. H. Day, the 

 Corinthian captain. Sports are much to the fore. 



The Indian Eeviexo giv.es special prominence in its 

 December, January, and February numbers to the 

 Delh' Durbar, with symposia from eminent Britons 

 and Indians on the King's visit, the change of 

 capital, the partition of Bengal, and the Coronation 

 Durbar. 



