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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



THE REAL REASON. 



America expects ever)' immigrant to 

 divorce himself completely from his 

 native land, to pledge himself to his 

 new bride for better or for worse, to 

 rely upon American courts, not upon 

 foreign diplomats, for the redress of 

 any wrong. If south-eastern Europe 

 had protested as vigorously, had threat- 

 ened reprisals for the killing of unnum- 

 bered " wops " (the vulgar name for the 

 Italian and Hungarian), as frequently 

 as Japan has protested and threatened 

 on account of proposed chanees in the 

 legal status of its citizens in California, 

 the East and the Middle West would 

 long ago have brought about radical 

 alterations in the Nations' immigration 

 policy, Official Tokyo's veiled threats 

 of hostilities — or what California con- 

 sidered veiled threats - — unofficial 

 Tokyo's rabid war talk, have done more 

 to increase California's dislike of its 



yellow residents than ten years' agita- 

 tion by the Asiatic Exclusion League. 



WHAT WILL HAPPEN ? 



Clear-headed Californians realise that 

 the anti-Japanese agitation, like the 

 thirty years' propaganda against the 

 Chinese, will not die ; will recur and 

 breed more trouble in ever new forms 

 until the status of the Japanese is by in- 

 ternational treaty definitely and finally 

 settled to the satisfaction of the Pacific 

 Coast. Tokyo cannot control the dan- 

 gerous tongues of its mobs ; California 

 cannot control the ballots of its voters. 

 The sooner both nations take clear cog- 

 nisance of all angles of the situation, of 

 its human as well as its legal aspects, 

 cool-headed Californians maintain, the 

 sooner both parties discern and calmly 

 admit the potential danger, the more 

 quickly will a permanent solution be 

 found. 



XI. -UNITING FOR CONQUEST IN CANADA. 



The systematic attempt to bring the 

 churches of Victoria into closer union, 

 especially the movement to federate the 

 theological colleges, should receive 

 fresh impetus from Prof. D. Adams' 

 article in the North American Student, 

 giving an account of the successful co- 

 operation between the theological col- 

 leges in Montreal. The outstanding 

 points about the McGill Union are, that 

 the theological schools which have 

 united belong to powerful and active 

 Christian bodies, each of whom intend 

 to preserve their own theology, and that 

 by combining the inadequate staffs of 

 each of the colleges, a really strong 

 faculty has been created. The profes- 

 sorial positions are therefore more at- 

 tractive, and the improvement in tuition 

 raises the standard of students. A bet- 

 ter class of man is, consequently, at- 

 tracted to the study of theology. It 

 is remarkable, too, that in only five 

 subjects must separate instruction be 

 given of the twenty-one in the curricula 

 of the different colleges. The immense 

 increase in efficiency by such a confed- 

 eration is too obvious to require em- 

 phasising. What Montreal has done 



surely Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide 

 can achieve. 



The Professor, who is Dean of the 

 Faculty of Applied Science at the McGill 

 University, Montreal, says that the Uni- 

 versity has no faculty of divinity, and 

 grants no divinity degrees. Situated 

 about the campus, however, are four 

 theological colleges, belonging to the 

 Presbyterian, the Congregational, the 

 Methodist, and the Anglican bodies, 

 respectively. These for many years 

 past have given separate instruction in 

 certain branches of literature and 

 science. The staff of each college was 

 small, and in all cases inadequate. 

 Each professor taught several subjects 

 to a relatively small number of students, 

 and in this way the four separate staffs, 

 year by year, went over essentially the 

 same ground in their respective colleges, 

 the work in many courses being not 

 merely duplicated, but quadruplicated. 

 This waste of time and effort, this lack 

 of efficiency — to employ an engineering 

 term--did not appeal to the lay mind ; 

 and with the advent of certain new 

 members to the governing boards of 

 the theological colleges, the question 



