Review of Hevieiis, l/6'i>o. 



ESPERANTO. 



ESPERAXTA KLUBO, MELBOUKNA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the club was held, 

 as usual, at 25 Rathdown-stroet. on Friday, July 6th. 

 A number of nen' members were elected, mostly resi- 

 dents in the country; and nomination.s for further 

 membership were received. 



A very interesting and profitable evening was spent 

 by members bringing fonvard difficult or interesting 

 passages met with in their reading, for di-scussion by 

 the club. 



An interesting account of the Duma elections was 

 read from the letter of a member's correspondent in 

 Warsaw. 



The next meeting of the club takes place on J?riday, 

 August 3rd_. 



A very 'interesting little brochure comes to hand 

 from France. The author decries Esperanto in plain- 

 rive language; not, indeed, because Esperanto is poor, 

 or impracticable, or a fad, but because it is so good, 

 s J efficient, so facile that he fears for the continued 

 fxist-ence of his mother tongue. Britishers, we think, 

 have too much faith in the offspring of good old Anglo- 

 Saxon to shai-e in this alarm, and Esperantists can only 

 rejoice at the unsolicited and unintentional, and tliere- 

 fore the more emphatic, testimony to the usefrilne.ss 

 and progress of their Kara lingvo. 

 ESPERANTO. 



The official opening of the Geneva Conference will 

 take place on August 28th. It will last to September 

 6th. There will be an excui-sion on Lake Leman, 

 and a reception at Vevey. General meetings, recep- 

 tions, entertainments, follow in due course. On Sat- 

 urday evening there Ls the official closing of business 

 discussions, after which tours to various places of in- 

 terest in Switzerland will be organised. One thing is 

 quite certain : everyone who was pre&ent at the Bou- 

 logne Congress, who can possibly afford it and can get 

 the time, will be at Geneva too. 



Esperanto is progressing so rapidly that it is impas- 

 sible to report all happenings in our small space. 

 Two great London firms find it worth while, on account 

 of their world-wide business, to issue their cii"cular.s in 

 Esperanto as well as English, French and German. 



Mr. IJooth, the President of the Melliourne Esperanto 

 Club, has kindly supplied the following specimen to me 

 for the benefit of Esperanto students. 1 shall be glad if 

 every student will send me translations. They will be 

 submitted to Mr. Booth, and I shall publish the best. It 

 will be necessary to allow a month to elajise before 

 publishing the translations, as such great distances have 

 to be traversed in Australasia. This will, however, give 

 everybody an opportunity to reply. The translations 

 will, therefore, appear in the August issue. Send replies 

 to the Editor, " Review of Reviews," Erjuitalile Building. 

 Melbourne. I shall be glad to get any information 

 about Esperanto Societies : — 



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LA FABELISTO. 



Reglio havis rakontiston de fabeloj, kiu lin multe 

 ghojigis. 



Ian vt'speron, dum la regho estas sur la lito, li 

 ordonis venigi la rakontiston kaj petis de li fabelon. 

 Tin chi, kiu deziregis dormi, pensis liberighi, sed 

 malgrau chio, li devis obei. Li do starighante 

 komencis tiel : 



Via regha Moshto, estis viro kiu havis cent monerojn 

 oratajn, kaj li volis acheti shafojn per sia mono. 

 Chia shafo kostis duonan moneron. Li akiris du cent 

 da ili, kaj revenis al sia vilagho kun siaj du cent 

 shafoj. S<>d, revenante, li trovis la riveron superel- 

 fluantan, char pluvis multege kaj la akvoj malproksime 

 etendighi sur la kamparo. Tial ke pouto ne estis, li 

 ne sciis kiamaniere transigi sin kaj siajn shafojn. Fine, 

 multelongo serchante, li trovis boato'i, sed tin boato 

 estis tiel malgranda ke li nur povis transigi du shafojn 

 unufoje. 



Tiam la rakontisto silentighis. 



Nu, diris la i-egho, kiam li estis trausigita tiujn du 

 shafojn, kion li faris? 



Via regha Moshto, vi scias ke la rivero estas largha, 

 la boato malgranda, kaj du cent shafoj estas tran- 

 sigotaj. Multo da tempo estas necese. Ni dormu do, 

 dum la transigado, kaj morgan mi al vi rakontos, kion 

 li faris poste. 



Traduhiia de R. L., el Sing. Internal: 



HONOUR TO AVHOM HONOUR. 



In regard to the article on " How California Fights 

 Her Fruit Pests " in your March number, I would 

 point out that the Century Magazine was quite right 

 in giving " California credit for having initiated the 

 idea of combating pests with parasites," for that 

 State not only initiated the idea, but it has been put- 

 ting the system into rigorous practice for more than 

 twenty years. It may be that the article did not do 

 justice to the part played by Western Australia in 

 Munection with Mr. Compere's recent expedition in 

 > arch of additional parasitic enemies of fruit 

 diseases, and it was well for the Perth Daily Mai/ 

 to point this out ; but there would be still more 

 serious error in denying to California the first honour 

 ' of adopting this " .scientific method of ridding the 

 } orchardist of expensive enemies." Western Australia 

 deserves the honour of being the first State of this 

 Commonwealth to adopt the Californian method of 

 fighting fruit pests. T. K. Dow. 



A correspondent writes from Sydney to say that the 

 gambling and betting evil is quite as rampant in Syd- 

 ney as it is in Melbourne ; that "' there are now at least 

 a dozen betting shops in the veiy centre of Sydney, all 

 without the least disguise (unless the changing of two 

 or three into clubs within the last year can be called 

 one). These, besides other .smaller ones, are open 

 every day. The police pa.ss them almost everj' minute, 

 and know that they are illegal, and yet hardly ever 

 interfere. The biggest and most flourishing have only 

 been raided once in the last 10 years. The police 

 make no attempt to close the shops that have been 

 raided. They re-open the next day after a raid, and 

 remain open as before.'' 



He recommends that one of the chief things neces- 

 sary is that owners of premises should be liable; that 

 impri-sonment should follow fine if it be not promptly 

 paid; that barricaded houses should be confiscated 

 and fines heavy enough to ruin anyone porsi.sting in 

 breaking the laws. 



