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The. Review of Reviews. 



million sterling, and one in London which reached a 

 third ot a million. K. M. Loudon publishes hither- 

 to unimlilishi'd (French) letters of Lord Chesterfield. 



THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. 



A number of the papers in the August issue have 

 lieen separately noticed. 



AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. 



.Mr. James Milne reports a new political America. 

 The old respect for the Constitution is giving place 

 to an uneasy feeling that eighteenth-century machin- 

 ery will not suit twentieth-century needs in the 

 largest democracy in the world. He says, " There 

 is little doubt that Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the Dfemo- 

 cratic candidate, is going to be the next American 

 President." He adds. "There is equally little 

 doul)t that if a straight vote of the whole American 

 people could be taken, Mr. Roosevelt would go in 

 against all comers." Mr. p.oosevelt will be heard from 

 again, because he has almost broken up political 

 machine which has ruled America since the Civil 

 War. Mr. Bryan boldly declares, " My ideas have 

 already had two terms at the White House." The 

 writer thinks that the Presidency will be safe in the 

 custody of Mr. Woodrow W'ilson. He is able, he 

 has dignity, even if he has not the genius for friend- 

 ship. 



TO HOUSE THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. 



Mr. J. L. Green pronounces the housing of the 

 .igricultural labourer to be generally inferior. He 

 would allow no new cottages to be erected with less 

 than three bedrooms, two with fireplaces in them. 

 He thinks that such cottages could be erected for 

 ^^i8o to ^200. He thinks the best method would 

 he to secure the co-operation of the landowners b\' 

 loans from the State, to be repaid partly by the 

 whole of the rent payable by the labourer, partly 

 Viv the development fund, and partly by the ow'ner 

 himself, who would become owner of the cottage in 

 sixty eight and a-half years. The owner would give 

 the land, receive no rent, .tkI meet the cost of re- 

 l>airs and insurance. -^ ""■■!- 



GERMAN AND "...nGLISH INSURANCE. 



.Mr. W. Harbutt Dawson, comparing insurance in 

 the two countries, -says that the most vital difference 

 is that insurance against .sickness and invaliditv are 

 covered in one system in England, and kept 'quite 

 distinct in Germany. The occupational scope of in- 

 surance in both countries is much the same. The 

 English Act carries dit'^erenfial treatment to a greater 

 extent. The terms offered to insurers under the Eng- 

 lish Act are altogether more generous. Maternity 

 benefit has only been given upon a very limited 

 scale in Germany. While declining to make in- 

 vidious conclusions as to the absolute superiority of 

 either sy.stem, the bal.mce o? the advantage seems, 

 in the writer's mind, 10 set in the direction of the 

 English Act. 



LIVING POET ON LIVING POET. 



Mr. .\lfred Noyes reviews the poems of Edmund 

 (josse, of which he speaks most highly. They have, 

 he says, the artistic passion of the French school, 

 hut underlying them all a scientific consciousness, or 

 " fundamental hrainwork.'' " The lines are loadetl 

 with the golden logic of beauty." They show that 

 " the intellectual method of true poetry is a weajx)n 

 of precision, and of an edge not to be matched bv the 

 mere flint weapons of prose. It flashes, but only be- 

 cause it is of steel. And it strikes home, because 

 it has behind it the whole strength of .1 man.'' T'liese 

 poems are " a confession of faith in the future of 

 English fjoetry by a true guardian of the fire." 



OTHER ARTICLES. 



Mr. 1-'. K. Smith reiterates the Tariff Reformers' 

 lielief in the efficacy of his panacea. He maintains 

 that the bye-elections prove that the Government is 

 heartily distrusted by the country. An anonvmous 

 writer adversely reviews the Home Rule Bill iii com- 

 mittee. Mr. VValter Jerrold finds the centenarv of 

 parody in the hundredth anniversary of the publica- 

 tion of " The Rejected Addresses." 



THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. 



^ The July number is the fir.st edited by Mr. Harold 

 Cox. His trenchant criticisms on current politics 

 have been separately quoted. Nine of the thirteen 

 papers are signed, and an eminent clu.ster of writers 

 has been secured. Half-a-dozen papers have been 

 separately noticed bv us. 



A PERMANENT ROYAL VICEROY FOR INDIA. 



A writer on India and her sovereign says that the 

 King's visit has lifted the people of India to a new 

 plane, making them feel no longer the subjects of 

 English people, but fellow -subjects with English 

 people of one King. The writer .says: — 



We are convinced that the only vv^.y of fully moetinc 

 Ui« real needs of India, lioth Kovernmental and Benti- 

 mental, is to make one of the Princes of the Royal House 

 the representative of the Sovereisn in India, with a high 

 otticuU to a<'t under him as Dewan or Prime Minister 



A Royal \io«roy or Prince RcKont. a Khnnilriii, lidini. 

 '.'i"^ "• the hlood. would stand out as the sotn-ce of honour, 

 the arhiter of social sanctions, the iirotcctor and ch.ampion 

 of immemori.il riehts and privileees, which lo the Indians 

 are as the breath of life. There would he continuity, for 

 the Prince Regent w<nild remain, and the short uncertain 

 tnendships of the five years' tenure of Vice-rovaltv would 

 give way to the abiding link of a longer period'. 



OTHER PAPERS. 



Home Rule economics are summerl up bv saving 

 that the cry of Ireland a nation is now changed into 

 Ireland a pauper. " The British pwple are to pay 

 fwe and a-half millions a vear for the privilege of 

 super- imposing canon law over the King's libertv in 

 Ireland." Mr. Edmund Gos.-Je describes the found- 

 ing of the vie de salon in the Hotel de Rambouillet 

 ;is the reaction from the rough and rude life of re- 

 ligious warfare towards what was gentle, beautiful, 

 and delicate. Horace Bleackley writes a deprecia- 

 tion of Fox. who, despite his supremacy as orator 

 and debater, is pronounced whollv destitute of 



