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The Reviews Reviewed. 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



With plenty of readable matter, the June number 

 does not contain any very eminent articles. 



" A GREAT SCHOOL OF HEALTH." 



Lady Paget makes the following suggestion : — 

 Why should not the Crystal Palace be made into a great 

 School of Health for all manner of people, for all ages from 

 infancy to childhood, for girls and boys, for young mothers on 

 to middle and old age ? It would be a school with practical 

 demonstration in everything pertaining to health. Demonstra- 

 tions in cooking, gymnastics, and dancing ; sun and air baths, 

 and every kind of water cure. There would be air huts for 

 those who wish to learn the simple life and nature cures ; no 

 place could be more perfect for this ideal way of recovering 

 health than the Crystal Palace, as on rainy days it would 

 provide a shelter and amusement and exercise. Hygienic 

 clothing would be taught and hygienic living in its best sense. 

 The theme and scope are so large that they would fill volumes, 

 and yet so simple that the rules once learnt become a second 

 nature to those who have thoroughly grasped them. 



The writer suggests also that the Palace should 

 include a great Empire Club. 



A GERMAN JEREMIAD OVER GERMANY. 



Mr. Ellis Barker is very severe in denouncing the 

 failure of post-Bismarckian Germany. In its foreign 

 policy Germany has simultaneously created the Triple 

 Entente and weakened, if not destroyed, the Triple 

 Alliance. Its army has suffered in numbers and quality. 

 Her shipbuilding has expanded very little since 1900. 

 Its savings-banks are so insecure that a war might 

 cause in Germany the greatest financial catastrophe 

 which the world has seen. " Germany is politically, 

 militarily, economically, administratively, and morally 

 on the down grade." Germany is a one-man show, and 

 since Bismarck the one man has not been found. Some 

 patriotic Germans actually wish for a disastrous war 

 to re-create and rejuvenate the country. 



UNIONIST LAND POLICY. 



The Marquess of Lincolnshire subjects this to 

 vigorous criticism, and says : — 



The truth is that the advocates of ownership are more con- 

 cerned with the political than the economic aspect of the 

 question. They are in favour of using .Slate credit to establish 

 a body of occupying owners who will form a "bulwark against 

 Socialism," and a useful addition to the ranks of Tory voters. 

 They are also influenced by the fact that their Tarifl" Reform 

 policy offers little, if any, benefit to the agricultural int'-rest. 

 They have, therefore, cast about for a land policy which is to 

 be the country cousin of Tarifl' Reform, and which they hope 

 will be the sugar coating to induce the agricultural voter to 

 swallosv the bitter pill o' Protection. 



The only persons who would benefit from the establishment 

 of a system of occupying ownership by means of State credit 

 would be the present race of landlords. 



What the farmer really needs is security of tenure. 



DEMOCRATIC ANGLICANISM. 



The Bishop of Queensland gives some Australian 

 experiences of the organisation of a disestablished 

 Church. He says : — 



The basisof all church appointments in Queensland is strongly 

 democratic. The parishioners elect the churchwardens, the 



auditors, the lay members of Synod, the parochial members of 

 the nomination board for the appointment of their respective 

 rectors and vicars, and two-thirds of the number of the parochial 

 council. The members of Synod, clerical and lay, elect in 

 Synod the diocesan members of the nomination board. The 

 diocesan members act in all appointments. The parochial 

 members act only in the appointments aft'ecting their respective 

 parishes. The members of Synod also elect the Bishop when a 

 vacancy in the see occurs. The Bishop, therefore, holds office 

 and authority by virtue of a democratic vote. 



He recommends that the Welsh clergy, if disestab- 

 lished, be paid from a central endowment fund, and 

 protests against the formation of two Church bodies, 

 one dealing with the property-, and the other with 

 doctrine, etc. 



CABLES VERSUS WIRELESS, 



Jfr. Charles Bright puts the case for cables veruis 

 wireless with a strong leaning to cables. He asks for a 

 Royal Commission to inquire into the relative merits 

 of all existing methods of communication. He says : — 



Dealing with facts as they are to-day, my own view is that 

 cable and wireless telegraphy each has its independent uses. 

 Whilst we require more cables, I am also in favour of wireless 

 telegraphy as an auxiliary service. 1 would, indeed, supplement 

 every inter-Imperial cable by some wireless system, thereby 

 alTording a convenient test for the relative merits of cables and 

 of different wireless systems. 



Meanwhile he hopes that'some Dominion oversea, or 

 imperially-minded individual, will produce the half- 

 million necessary to lay a British cable from this 

 country to Canada. 



THE ARMY IN FAVOUR AT OXFORD. 



Mr. A. K. Slessor declares that an astonishing 

 enthusiasm for soldiering has seized upon the under- 

 graduate. The University contingent of the officers' 

 training corps now comprises more than a third of the 

 entire University. " All the best people are in it." 

 In January the corps had reached a strength of 1,140 

 of all ranks. The Universities are e^'ery year furnishing 

 a growing number of candidates for the position of 

 officer. " Schools " in military studies have been insti- 

 tuted, both at Oxford and Cambridge. The War Office 

 has done much to make smooth the path from the 

 University to the Army. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 



Mr. A. G. Bradley glorifies the record of achievement 

 of the Ulster Scot" in the United States. Mr. H. H. 

 Statham describes this year's Salon and the Koyal 

 Academy. Of the latter he says, " We are saved by 

 our portraits from what would otherwise be a very 

 weak exhibition." Mr. J. H. Morgan replies to 

 Mr. Balfour's criticism of the Home Rule Bill, and 

 \-igorously oj'jects to it being called Federalism. Miss 

 Edith Sichell gives a (harming sketch of Pauline 

 de Beaumont, the friend of ffubert and Cliateaubriand. 

 R. Y. Tyrrell supplied many interesting illustrations 

 of the attempts that haNc been made by English 

 versifiers to produce metrical versions of the Odes of 

 Horace. 



