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tant parts of the world. 1 hoi^e it ma\- 

 have the continued success it so well 

 deserves. — Yours, sincerely, 



THE HON. P. M'M. (iL^NN, M.H.R., 



Minister of External Affairs for the 

 Commonwealth. 

 Dear Mr. Stead, — As a reader of the 

 Review of Reviews from, I think, the 

 opening number, I may claim the privi- 

 lege of an intimate, and, on the occasion 

 of the Review's majority, be permitted 

 to send a few words of greeting and 

 God-speed. In matters of sympathy, 

 one, perhaps, had better act on the first 

 impulse ; and I confess I was inclined 

 to write you a word or two when you 

 lost your good father, in the very pleni- 

 tude of his service, and readers through- 

 out our world-wnde Empire lost, in many 

 matters, a guide, philosopher and friend. 

 But I had never seen him, and had not 

 yet met you. After all, why should the 

 conventions, that keep so many lives 

 apart, make one hesitate to write, as a 

 friend would, to the son of one whom 

 for twenty years and more — for I used 

 to read the Pall Mall Gazette — I had 

 known, from his writings, to be a man 

 of a nature and disposition as frank and 

 generous as his style and purpose were 

 direct and sincere, and who never feared 

 to speak, when the occasion called for 

 the wholesome, though unpalatable 

 truth. With hearty congratulations on 

 the Review's " coming of age," I am, 

 sincerely yours, 



HON. JAS. S. McGOWEN, M.L.A. 



Minister of Labour and Industry, 

 N.S.W. 



My dear Review of Reviews, — Let me 

 tender you my heartiest congratulations 

 on " coming of age." You have my 

 best wishes for a continuance of your 



success, which your merits should put 

 you in a position not only to deser\e but 

 to command. — Yours sincerely. 



THE HON. JOHN MURRAY, M.L.A. 

 Chief Secretary for Victoria. 

 Ever since its first appearance, I have 

 been a constant reader of the Review 

 of Reviews, and, although not always 

 in agreement with the views of your late 

 father, no one held a higher opinion of 

 his extraordinary ability and the versa- 

 tility of his genius than I did, and, 

 when, in the gloom of the awful 

 " Titanic " disaster, the world was de- 

 prived of his services, I felt, as everyone 

 knowing his work must have felt, that a 

 great gap had been left in the ranks of 

 those who work for the good of the 

 human race. It is said that any one 

 unit withdrawn from the sum of human 

 existence can be replaced ; but this 

 is not so in your father's case, for he, 

 with his exceptional qualifications, his 



