Review of Reviews, 1I7J06. 



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THE PALL MALL MAGAZINE. 



The May number of the Pall Mall ilarjazinc con- 

 tains a short article on Funch and the Trea.sui7 Bencli 

 in the form of a short interview, by Mr. Bruuo Phil- 

 lips, with Mr. Linley Sambourne. 



From the point of view of the caricature, Mr. Sam- 

 bourne finds Mr. Morley the most difficult of all the 

 new Ministers, having no particularly marked cliarac- 

 teristio and no outstanding feature. Mr. Asquith is 

 as difficult tor similar reasons. On the other hand, 

 Mr. Gladstone and Lord Beacon.sfield were " triumphs 

 of character in the form of feature and expression." 

 In reference to his metlmd of work, Mr. Sambourne 

 says ; — 



Every man has his own way of working. Mine is to study 

 the best portraits I can get and stamp a man's individualit.v 

 upon the mind; and this i.s assisted lart:el.v, of course, by 

 meeting liim in the ordinary walks of life. But it has never 

 been my method to draw from life, or knock off those flying 

 sketches which I know are so valuable to my colleagues 

 when the occasion for usint^ them arrives. 



At the age of eighty-two, Josef Israels, the Dutch 

 artist, has been elected an Honorary Foreign Acade- 

 mician, and Annie Ludeu in the present issue of the 

 magazine gives us a tinu-ly picture of the artist at 

 work. He still works six hours a day, and at present 

 he is engaged on a picture to be called " The End of 

 the Day.' Before he begins a picture he sees in his 

 mind every turn of it, every line, every feeling, but 

 the working out, tbe getting it right, he says, is the 

 real beauty of it all. He thinks the English painters 

 finish tlifir pictures too much, not knowing when to 

 leave them alone. 



THE C0RRE8P0NDANT. 



The first April numb?r of the Correspondant opens 

 with an article by H. Korwin Milewski, on the Future 

 Parliament of Russia. Tlie writer announces that he 

 was the author of the anonymous article on the Con- 

 stitutional Crisis in Russia, which appeared in the 

 same review in January, 1905. 



TBE DUMA. 



The writer notes four leading parties of the Duma, 

 and thus defines them: — 



(1.) The Socialist-Revolutionary Party, few in num- 

 ber, but nevertheless able to exercise an immense 

 influence over their neighbours to the Left. 



(2.) The Constitutional-Democratic Party, much 

 more democratic than constitutional, accepting the 

 monarchy and demanding universal suffrage. 



(3.) Tlie Party of October 17th— namely, the Monar- 

 chical-Constitutional Party. M. Goutchkoff, their 

 chief, has covered the Empire with committees, and at 

 this moment it seems as if his party will counter- 

 balance the preceding party. 



(4.) The Party of Legal Order, composed chiefly of 

 bureaucrats, trying to cover with velvet gloves hands 

 of iron. 



There will also be many minor parties, industrial, 

 purely monarchical, national, etc. The more intelli- 

 gent section of the first National Assembly at lea.st, 

 says the writer, will be absolutely incorruptible. The 

 rural members, like the rural members of the Na- 

 tional Assembly in France in 1871, may not be strong, 

 but they are all very worthy men. 



CATHOLIC AND SOCIAL PEOPAGANDA WORK. 

 Eugene Tavernier gives, under the title of "The 

 Science of Propaganda," au account of the German 

 Catholic Vilksverein (Popular Union'!, which has its 

 Central Buicau at Miinchcn-Gladbach. not far from 

 Cologne, in tho industrial region of Krefeld, Essen, 

 Elberfeld, and Dusseldorf, The object of the Union is 



Ciiristian Social Reform, and the two means of pro- 

 paganda are literature, lectures and discussions. There 

 i,s a library ot 4(IU0 volumes, works on religion and 

 the social sciences, besides two weekly papers. The 

 oral sectiou is equally important. Last year two 

 thousand meetings were held on questions of reli- 

 gious and social progress, and the adherents number 

 ■180,000. The Union has been in existence fifteen 

 .years. Essentially Catholic in its nature, the Tnion 

 is naturally animated by an ardent solicitude for 

 .social reforms. Indirectly it is political and electoral. 

 It is not in any way dependent on the Centre. It 

 renders the Centre various services and receives vari- 

 ous services from the Centre. Members of the Centre 

 may be seen at the meetings of the Union, and many 

 members of the Union belong to the ranks of the 

 Centre. 



INDIAN SUBJECTS IN THE MAGAZINES. 



The Asiatic Quarterly Beview publishes the interest- 

 ing papers read before the East India Association by 

 Mr. Yusuf Ali on " Civic Life in India," and by 

 Shaikh Abdul Qadir on "Young India; Its Hopes and 

 Aspirations," with a full report of the discussion that 

 followed. It also publishes Mr. S. M, Mitra's paper 

 on " The Piartitiou of Bengal and the Bengali lan- 

 guage," in which he maintains that the adminis- 

 trative partition will not prejudicially affect 

 the growth of Bengali language and literature. 

 The Indian TForld for March republishes in 

 full Mr. C. E. Buckland's paper on ''The 

 City of Calcutta," which was read before the 

 Society of Arts. The editor complains of the " stupid 

 brutality and insolent folly " of Dr. Fitchett's recent 

 articles on Hinduism, and laments Mr. Morley's de- 

 cision not to I'eopen the Partition question, which 

 seems to show that " settled things " and '' seeming 

 expediences " have much greater attraction for the 

 man of politics than the " greater good " and larger 

 expediences had for the man of letters twenty years 

 ago. Articles on the life and message of Swami Vive- 

 kananda appeal- in the Mysore Heriew for March, and 

 in the Brahn\aradin for Febraai'y. In the Indian 

 Beview for March, besides the symposium on the 

 Swadhesi movement, there are articles on '' Shelley 

 and Vedantism," Mr. Hobson on '' Imperialism," and 

 Mr. Orossfield's plea for the development of autonomy 

 within the Empire. 



The article on " How California Fights Her Fruit 

 Pests," which I reviewed in the March numher of 

 " The Review of Reviews," comes in for some kindly 

 comment by the Perth Daily News. The editor of that 

 paper very courteously points out a mistake which 

 the Century Magazine made with regard to Mr. Com- 

 pere. Tlie Century Magazine gave California the credit 

 for having initiated the idea of combating pests with 

 parasites, and Western Australia is just casually men- 

 tioned as the country which helps to pay Mr. Com- 

 pere's expenses. Tlie Perth Daily Nrir.t says that we 

 will be " interested to know that Mr. Compere has 

 been in the sei-vice of the Government of Western 

 Australia for several years, and it was after ho had 

 been advocating the parasitical destruction of fruit 

 pests, and had started out in search of the fruit fly 

 and other parasites, that tho Government of California 

 realised the importance of his work, and agreed to 

 pay a share of his expenses in return for a share of 

 his success " ; and it ,siigge.sts that if honour is given 

 to whom honour is due. Western Australia should 

 reall.y recoive the first credit for adopting scientific 

 methods of ridding the orchardist of expensive enemies. 

 I am much obliged to the editor for his information 

 and his friendl.v manner of giving it. 



