OUR TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY. 



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vigour, his honesty, his single-minded- 

 ness of purpose, his tenacity in pursuing 

 the course of what he believed to be 

 right, has left a void that never can and 

 never will be filled. He stood alone 

 among journalists, towering above all 

 his compatriots; nor were any gifted 

 like him, and I feel certain of this, that 

 the present conductors of the magazine, 

 if they humbly follow in his footsteps, 

 will continue to make it one of the most 

 valuable publications that we have in 

 the English-speaking race. 



THE HON. JUSTICE HIGGINS. 



Dear Mr. Stead, — I have been a reader 



of your father's Review for many years, 



and I value it most highly. It is a busy 



man's world-telescope. I know nothing, 



sadly in need of better foreign intelli- 

 gence, as the cablegram service is so 

 unsatisfactory. I congratulate you on 

 the excellent form and matter of the 

 Australasian issue on approaching the 

 2 1st birthday. — Yours, with best wishes, 



RT REV. BISHOP MERCER, OF TASMANIA. 



Dear Mr. Editor, — Allow me to send 

 }'ou a word of special greeting. I do 

 not like to reckon up the years since the 

 English Review of Reviews came to my 

 rescue in my spasmodic efforts to keep 

 abreast of the times. I am now in Aus- 

 tralia, and the big world is hurrying on 

 at a quicker pace than ever — -a pace 

 which, if a little dazing, is greatly in- 

 vigorating — and I find my old friend, 

 duly adapted to its changed environ- 

 ment, still constant to my needs. I ap- 

 preciate more particularly its sturdy 

 avoidance of sensationalism, and its 

 well-proportioned presentation of think- 

 ings and doings that claim the attention 

 of citizens of the world. I cordially 

 wish the Review a growing circulation 

 and a solid popularity. — Yours very 

 truly, 



THE HON. ALFRED DEAKIN. 

 Dear Mr. Stead.^I hope you will 

 allow me as a regular reader of the Re- 

 view of Reviews since its foundation, 

 and having had the pleasure of meeting 

 its founder, Mr. W. T. Stead, in Lon- 

 don, to congratulate you heartily upon 

 its majority, and wish it all success 

 under your management in its new form. 

 — Yours very truly, 



ALFRED DEAKIN. 



THE HON. THE MAYOR OF ADELAIDE. 



You have my warmest congratulations 

 in its way, so good as the " Progress of on the attainment by the Australasian 

 the World " part, which your father edition of the Review of Reviews of 

 handled with such a light and illuminat- its twenty-first year of publication. I 

 ing touch. The people of Australia are have always read it, and always enter- 



