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THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS 



FOR AUSTRALASIA. 



EDITED BY HENRY STEAD. 



CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1913. 



Page 

 Clement-Bayard Airship 



King George and the Emperor William in Berlin 



Frontispiece 



The Progress of the World — 



The Bulgarian Debacle 551 



Roumauia in Control 551 



The Turks' Chance 552 



Activities in the Balkans 552 



Chaos in Mexico 554 



Columbia and U.S. A 554 



Civil War in China 555 



The Future of the Pacific 555 



Fear of the Unknown Quantity 556 



An English-Speaking Alliance 556 



A Hundred Years of Peace 556 



Troubles on the Rand and at Bendigo . . . , 557 



Ulster and Home Rule 558 



The Suffragettes and the Franchise 558 



The Maltese for Australia 559 



Murray Waters 559 



The Victorian Crisis 560 



Congress on Union of Churches 560 



Reforming the Legislative Council in Newr 



Zealand 561 



The Invasion of the Deadly Microbe . . . . 561 



Speaker Willis Resigns 562 



A Strong Man Armed .. .. 563 



(Continued o 



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After Twenty-One Years — 



To the English-Speaking Folk Under the 

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Our Twenty-first Birthday — Congratulations 

 from Readers 



The Federal Capital Site 



My Father : W. T. Stead. IV. By Henry 



Stead 



Pictures by Australian Artists Dora Meeson's 

 Exhibition 



Topics of the Month — 



XII. — Irrigation in Victoria 



Notable Artistic Visitors ... 

 Notable Anniversaries of the Month 

 Leading Articles in the Reviews — 



The Undying Story of Captain Scott . . . . 



Racial War in the Pacific 



White and Coloured 



What the Japanese do in California . . . . 



Notable Men and Women 



Maurice Maeterlinck — Philosopher — Pugilist 



Fighting Men and Things . . 



The Blindfold Game 



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