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The Review of Reviews. 



THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. 



The June number is more literary than usual. It 

 contains two poems — one b}' Thomas Hardy on the 

 loss of the Titanic, and another by Laurence Binyon, 

 entitled " Thunder on the Downs." 



IMPERIAL VALUE OF TRIANGULAR CRICKET. 



Sir Home Gordon writes on the real meaning of this 

 cricket season, and says : — 



A grand chord of Imperial unity is struck when Spulh Africa 

 meets Australi.i at Lord's. To come " home " all those 

 thousands of miles to strive, not only with England, but with 

 each other, at the historical headquarters of the Imperial game, 

 is no small factor in Imperial unity. 



No falser lie was ever penned than the empty gibe of 

 Mr. Rudyard Kipling at "the flannelled fool." Great 

 cricketers have fought for their Empire just as valiantly as 

 authors who receive large cheques for jingles about Jingoism. 

 Kipling and Mafficking have done_less for the Empire than 

 cricket and Imperialism. 



The writer's enthusiasm may be imagined from his 

 saying " the cheers at Lord's will be hymns of Empire." 



THE OUTLOOK IN IRELAND. 



, Mr. Sydney Brooks declares that posterity will single 

 out Sir H. Plunkctt^as one who wrought the beginnings 

 of a mighty revolution. " He is the real liberator of 

 latter-day Ireland." The Nationalists have per- 

 sistently, he says, sought to thwart and cripple his 

 great co-operative movement — happily, in vain. He 

 rejoices in the entry of Irish women into the co-opera- 

 tive field. A writer, who does not give his name, 

 attempts to tell why Ulster distrusts Roman 

 Catholicism. By " Ulster " he means, of course, that 

 half of the province that opposes Home Rule. The 

 reasons he advances are of a kind that were current in 

 England in the old " No Popery " times. Ulster Pro- 

 testants, he says, believe that " under a Home Rule 

 Parliament Ireland will become a miniature Papal 

 State, governed by a Nuncio from Rome." 



THREE CURIOUS POETS. 



Mr. Horace B. Samuel contributes a study of August 

 Strindberg, whose dominant emotion is fear turning 

 into systcmatiscd delusion and persecution mania, so 

 that he writes, " I seek God and find the devil. My 

 hate is boundless as the wastes, burning as the sun, 

 and stronger than my love." Mr. Samuel says, " With 

 all his perversities, with all his aberrations, Strindberg 

 remains the blackest, and in his own particular spheres 

 the most drastic, intelligence in the whole of our 

 European literature." Mr. Francis Gribble finds the 

 secret of ilarcclline Desbordes-Valmore, who has been 

 called the French Mrs. Browning, in her lifelong passion 

 for a man who betrayed her in her youth — namely, 

 M. de Latouchc. Mr. H. M. Paull studies the work of 

 John Gay, the author of " The Beggar's Opera," friend 

 of Pope, and a star of the second magnitude in the 

 golden conslellation of that age. 



Mr. G. Herbert Thrin* states the advantages and 

 defects of the Copyright .■Xct of igri, which makes the 

 term of copyright run for the life of the author and 

 fifty years after his death. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. 



The North American Review contains several articles 

 of moment, which have been specially noticed. 



THE SENATE ON ITS DEFENCE. 



Senator Bacon endeavours to defend the action of 

 the Senate in its amendments to the unreserved 

 Arbitration Treaties between France and England and 

 the United States. The purport of his arguments is 

 that these new treaties were unnecessary, there being 

 general arbitration treaties now in force between the 

 United States and twenty-five nations. The new 

 treaties would, he argues, have taken away from the 

 Senate its constitutional powers, and handed them 

 over to an International Commission that might have 

 been entirely composed of foreigners. 



AMERICAN MONEY ABROAD. 



American commerce and capital abroad form the 

 subject of an interesting study by John Ball Osborne. 

 He estimates that at the present time about two 

 thousand million dollars of American money are 

 invested outside the United States. He urges the 

 President to use the power entrusted to him of reprisal 

 against hostile tariffs, by raising the minimum which 

 he now holds to the maximum tariff, which would 

 almost be prohibitive. 



LET THE POPE ONLY TURN A LIBERAL JEW ! 



The future of the Papacy is exercising the mind of 

 Mr. Isidore Singer, who urges on the Pope to respond 

 to the plea of the Jewish Darmesteter, to " brush aside 

 the outworn dogmatic structures of the theologians 

 from the Council of Nicaea to the last Council of the 

 Vatican, and henceforth pray and make humanity 

 pray to the Father to Whom Jesus and the Apostles 

 and the early Christians prayed." Then the Catholic 

 Church will take on a new lease of life, and be able to 

 assume once more the supreme direction of human 

 society. Among the many appeals addressed to the 

 Papacy, perhaps this is the most astounding, to ask 

 that it should adopt the faith of a modern Liberal 

 Jewish theist. 



Mr. E. H. Neal, in supporting the " closed " shop 

 as against the " open " shop, declares that organised 

 labour stands for clean living, right thinking, con- 

 servative action, and conservatism within the ranks of 

 organised labour will prevail. 



The June number of the GirVs Realm has a very 

 interesting article by Saint Nihal Singh upon the 

 Maharanee of Baroda. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser writes 

 about Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, and Miss 

 Stewart upon the scheme originated by Mr. Stead for 

 holidays abroad for English" girls. As always, the 

 magazine contains a most useful amount of housecrafts 

 The chapter on amateur vase-making will amuse many 

 young people and supply a real want. 



