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The Review of Reviews. 



Mr. G. H. Perris, in his fierce polemical pamphlet 

 Our Foreign Policy and Sir E. Grey's Failure (Andrew 

 Melrose), supplies one answer to M. Novikoff's query. 

 It is because pacificists like Mr. Perris hate the Russian 

 Empire so much that they deem no enterprise so holy 

 as a campaign against the English Minister who by his 

 entente with Russia has secured an Anglo-Russian 

 peace in Asia. Mr. Perris hates " The Cossack Empire" 

 far more than he loves peace, and his zeal against 

 British naval supremacy has eaten up his discretion. 



POLITICS, HISTORY, ETC. 



A Philosophy of Social Progress, by E. J. TJrwick, 

 M.A. (Methuen. 6s.). There is as much cant abroad 

 to-day as when religious squabbling was the unsatis- 

 factory pre-occupation of idle busybodies. Professor 



Urwick makes 

 out a good case 

 when he re- 

 duces the rival 

 claimants of 

 social panaceas 

 to their due 

 proportions. 

 In the welter 

 of schemes and 

 " isms " there 

 is assuredly 

 little salvation 

 and no science 

 worthy the 

 name, and we 

 are afraid we 

 can say little 

 more for the 

 P r o f essor "s 

 philosophy, 

 ilcadmits that 

 his substitute 

 is a reliance on 

 the most gene- 

 ral of moral 

 generalities. The guidance of an animating ideal is 

 the salt of any theory, but uniil a few riddles arc 

 solved by the Sphinx, even philosophy at its best is 

 an ill-assorted collection of old ideas strung on the 

 thin strands of feeble faith. In actual fact Professor 

 I rwick is a dogmatist, but is far too ingenuous to 

 make frank confession, and is therefore forced to 

 build up many strata of evidence and argument to 

 support the fabric of his belief. Modern conditions 

 are too complex, human demands too divergent to 

 enable any garment, howe\er philosophically disposed, 

 to embrace all things within its containing folds. 

 There is, of course, the accommodating advice, " Ik- 

 good, and if ye can't be good be aisy, and if ye can't 

 be aisy be as aisy as ye can." but such latitudinarianism 

 fails to meet the Professor's sense of fitness. He has, 

 liowever, discovered what all sincere workers have 

 long since realised — that the real advantage of 



r/r^titgrn/'l, l:v\ \Hisl,-d, linker St. 



Professor E. J. Jrwick. 



all social effort to the worker and thinker, whether 

 their effort is successful or not, matters little. " It 

 is more blessed to give than receive." This is the 

 highest philosophy, for it brings immediate comfort 

 to all who have the courage to adopt this strange 

 saying, leaving to inferior mortals the hopeless task 

 of discussing the perfect way which leadeth out of 

 this earthly labyrinth. Professor Urwick has stated 

 his case with marked toleration, and it is a great 

 pleasure and privilege to disagree ever so slightly with 

 so courteous an opponent. 



Things that Matter, by L. G. Chiozza Money 

 (Methuen. 5s. net). Mr. Money is really indefatigable, 

 always in the breach, and ready to die a thousand 

 deaths on behalf of the many causes he has at heart. 

 So redoubtable a champion must often weary that 

 there be so few who dare accept his challenge. It is 

 idle to advance a mere argument ; Mr. Money can at 

 a touch summon the fierce spirits from his statistical 

 cauldron, and, the luckless protagonist beats a hasty 

 retreat to seek an easier victory. We should be 

 grateful to this fighter who weighs his words and 

 makes every line an argument ; he has given encourage- 

 ment to many into whose hands he has placed weapons 

 forged from his armoury of facts, facts, facts. Every 

 young politician should add this volume to his book- 

 shelves and consult frequently. 



One Look Back, by the Rt.' Hon. G. W. E. Russell 

 (Wells, Gardner, Darton and Co. 10s. 6d. net). 

 Mr. Russell could not fail to be interesting, and 

 although he passes in rapid review all men and many 

 things, his instinctive courtesy enables him to preserve 

 a full tone of charity throughout his 266 pages. The 

 author's predilections are well known, and we can 

 only regret that Mr. Russell's interests have not taken 

 him farther afield, for he unconsciously retains the 

 limitations of Harrow, Oxford and St. James's. Genial 

 discretion is the guardian of Mr. Russell's confidences, 

 and the took will be read with especial pleasure by 

 contemporaries who have not had such abundant 

 opportunities of observation. 



The Fall oj the Mogul Empire, by Sidnc}' J. Owen 

 M.A. (John Murray. 7s. fid. net). Would thatthe day 

 of Stodge the historian had gone, never to return ! 

 Would that the professor of history were as welcome 

 as Stevenson or Cohan Doyle ! Of this wished-for 

 change the book before us is a presage. A close 

 acquaintance with his subject has enabled Professor 

 Owen to pick his way, amid many distractions, and 

 the result is a stirring narrative full of interest to 

 those who feel moved in the possession of our wonder- 

 ful Eastern heritage. The problems peculiar to Indian 

 government, which led to tlie downfall of the Empire 

 of the Mogul, ha\e not yet been solved, hence this little 

 history is not so remote from the present da\' as its title 

 would suggest. Dealing in part with the same jieriod.but 

 with a more mundane subject, Mr. F. P. Robinson's 

 contribution on The Trade oj the Fast India Company 

 (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d. net) is as necessary 

 lor a complete understanding of Indian history as the 



