Leading Articles in the Reviews. 



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WHAT LOCOMOTIVES ARE 

 COMING TO. 



In Cassier's for May Mr. J, F. Gairns describes 

 remarkable locomotives of iqii. Not only are loco- 

 motives growing in length of body^ number of wheels, 

 and shortness of funnel, but in their inordinate length 

 they are actually becoming jointed so as to wind their 

 way round cur\es : — 



w -•America is now almost the exclusive home of the Mallet type 

 articulated locomotive, especially on a large scale, and several 

 interesting designs of this class will require reference in duo 

 conrse. But the locomotive is peculiarly notable, in that 

 it provides the only instance of the provision of twenty 

 driving wheels in one machine. The origin of the class 

 is somewhat strange. Some ten years or so ago a series of 

 enormous 2 — 10 — 2 tandem compound engines were placed in 

 service by the .-Mchison, Topcka and Santa Fe Railroad. 

 These were then the largest locomotives in the world, and 

 represented about the extreme possible develoj)men!s under non- 

 articulated conditions. They have now Decn utilised to jiroduce 

 the new design by fitting a fresh boiler with front extension 

 containing superheater, reheater and feed -water heater, remov- 

 ing the leading wheels and the high-pressure cylinders, and 

 attaching an articulated frame with another .set of wheels, high- 

 pressure cylinders, pony truck and other details. The new- 

 parts were supplied by the- B.ildwin Locomotive Works, and 

 the result is the production of a dc-sign that is by far the largest 

 in the world, and which is unique and likely to remain so for 

 some years. In service these engines have done marvellous 

 work on the mountainous sections, and it is understood that 

 they have abundantly justified themselves in every way. 



Mr. Gairns also mentions an articulated locomotive 

 with fle.xible boiler connection. Four have been con- 

 structed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works having 

 flexible boilers with a bellows joint and intended for 

 service on the same railroad. 



TRIBUTE TO BROWNING. 



The frontispiece to the North American Review for 

 May is a fine portrait of Robert Browning. .Mr. Darrell 

 Figgis contributes an appreciation, in which he says of 

 Browning, "It is not too much to say that he has 

 emerged, or is like to emerge, to the foremost rank of 

 English poets, with such as Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, 

 Wordsworth, and Shelley for companions." He says 

 the mind will turn with distaste from the shallowness 

 and smugness of" the "Idylls of the King," and will 

 read and re-read and again re-read " Men and Women " 

 with increasing joy. For " Tennyson's poetry answers 

 to the immediale and more obvious meanings of the 

 word poetry, while Browning's poetry seems always to 

 avoid them." 'Jhe writer makes the following pene- 

 trating remark : — " Browning seems ever to need some 

 other personality whom he inay fashion to sing for 

 him. lie seems never to be able to get at grips with 

 Kealitv till he is able to approach it in the guise of 

 another's soul." Mr. Figgis, speaking of " The I<ing 

 and the Book," says it is one of the very great things 

 in our literature. 



TRAINING OF AMERICAN 

 CHILDREN. 



In the Outlook for April Klizabelh McCrackcn writes 

 on .\mcrican children. She says : — 



The English mother, whatever her rank, tries to give her 

 children in their home what she had in her childhood'.s home ; 

 as well as she is able, she copies what her mother did. The 

 conditions of her life may be entirely different from those of her 

 mother, l.er children may be unlike herself in disposition ; yet 

 she still holds to tradition in regard to their upbringing ; she 

 tries to make their home a reproduction of her mother's home. 



The American- mother, whatever her station, does the exact 

 opposite— she attempts to bestow upon her children what she 

 did not possess ; and she makes an effort to imitate as little as 

 possible what her mother did. She desires her children to 

 have that which she did not have, and for which she longed ] 

 or that which she now thinks so much better a possession than 

 anything she did have. Her ambition is to train her children, 

 not after her mother's way, but in accordance with "the most 

 approved modern method." This method is apt, on analysis, 

 to turn out to be merely the reverse side of her mother's 

 procedure. 



The parents try to give to the children ideals that were not 

 given to them ; they attempt to inculcate in the children habits 

 that were not inculcated in themselves. 



American parents do not relinquish their authority over their 

 children. .'Vs for government — like other wise parents, thej 

 .aim to help it to develop, as soon as it properly can, from a 

 government of and for their children into a government by 

 them. Self-government is the lesson of lessons they most 

 earnestly desire to te.ich their children. 



American fathers and mothers explain so many things to their 

 children. And .\merlcan children explain quite as great a 

 number of things to their ixirents. They can ; because they are 

 not only friends, but familiar friends. 



VOTES PX)R ()LD1:R WOMEN 

 FIRST. 



Mr. E. Crawsh.\y-Willi.\ms, M.P.. writing in the 

 Contciu porary Reviau onX\\>i position of WoinanSufifrage, 

 makes a curiously interesting suggestion. He grants 

 that the nation is not yet ripe for adult suffrage. He 

 grants that woman must not in the first instance be 

 enfranchised in overwhelming numbers. At the same 

 time he anticipates that the Government Keiorm Bill 

 will introduce .Manhood SulTragc. To give the vote to 

 women on a restricted property or other qualification 

 would seem to him to be reactionary and impossiblei 

 His conclusion is : — 



I'resuming, then, that the Government liill is to introduce 

 manhood suffr-ige at a certain age, all that it is necessary to da 

 in order to graft on to this a harmonious, simple and moderate 

 form of Woman .Suflragc is to provide fur womaidiood sulVrage 

 at a suitably higher age. It is quite cvi<lenl that by a process 

 of raiding the age-limit for the women's vote, the number 

 admitted to the franchise could be fined down to any extent ; 

 the policy of adult suffrage with a higher agc-limil for women 

 than for men fulfils all the reqaircments laid down for a true 

 conciliation measure. Nor need advocates of comp'etc adull 

 sulTiage look askance at the proposal. Adult suflragc in its 

 entirely is the only ultimate and logic.d solution of the franchise 

 (|ucslion, and it would not take many years to reduce the agc- 

 limil for women down to that for men if, as is certain, the new 

 dep'>rture proved a success. Meanwhile, not even the most 

 rigorous of democrat purists could ol>ject in principle to such a 

 preliminary measure. 



