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The Review of Reviews. 



September 1, 1906. 



MEN AND WOMEN OF INDIA. 



Men and JVnmen of India is. I understand, the first 

 publication of its kind in India. It is a rery fully il- 

 lustrated monthly record of life and work in India.' 

 A great many pictures appear of the recent Royal 

 tour — among the very best I have seen. The portraits 

 are not only of Governors and their wives, judges and 

 their ladies, and other prominent Anglo-Indians, but 

 a large proportion are of prominent natives. A na- 

 tive lady appears on the cover of one of the numbers. 

 The most curious picture is of the famous Orissa 

 twins, .ioined by the side, not as the Siamese twins 

 were joined. The magazine is published in Bombay, 

 the annual subscription being Rs. 7.8, or 10.0 post 

 free ; and the London agents are Messrs. E. J. Reid 

 and Co.. Basinghall Avenue. E.C. 



of Xotre Dame and the Lincoln devil, as representa- 

 tions in stone, and reproductions of a number of old 

 prints and pictures, giving various artists' concep- 

 tions-of Satan — Dore, tietzen' Mayer. J. P. Laurens, 

 etc. 



Mr. R. Weston writes on the peculiarities of French 

 authors. Moliere is represented reading to his house- 

 keeper, Delille dictating to his wife, and Paul Ver- 

 laine at a cafe, with paper, pen and ink, and a glass 

 of absinthe before him. Lafontaine wrote his fables 

 in the midst of brilliant society, taking no notice of 

 the people round him. Racine" could not work if he 

 caught the smell of apples. BufFon could only write 

 with valuable lace cuffs on his sleeves. Voltaire had 

 several desks, on each of which lay open his various 

 unfinished manuscripts : and Rousseau was always 

 longing for a wild and lonely life in the forest. 



C B. FRY'S MAGAZINE. 



The July number is as bright and breezy as usual. 

 ■ The out-of-door man is Lord Desliorough. who is de- 

 scribed as one of the few men who do all things ex- 

 cellently well. There is a very interesting account of 

 the Olympian Games by Mr. A. E. Johnson, illus- 

 trated with most instructive photographs. He says 

 that from the onlooker's point of view no finer build- 

 ing than the vast white marble amphitheatre could 

 be devised. The stadium seats 60.000 people at the 

 same time, and to every one a clear view of everything 

 that happens in the arena is possible. He attributes 

 the American success in the flat racing to the fact 

 that they had four men out of the eight contending. 

 The throwing of the javelin was one of the most 

 popular events, but it was the ilarathon race which 

 caused the greatest excitement. The course runs from 

 Marathon to Athens, about twenty-six miles in length. 

 It is simply and solely a test of endurance. The blaz- 

 ing heat of the sun burning in a cloudless sky, the 

 rough road and the thick dust strewed the track with 

 the men who fell overpowered. Sherring, the Cana- 

 dian who won the race, owes his victory to his having 

 familiarised himself with the track. 



As befits the season, there is much chat about lawn 

 tennis. «ith a special illustrated paper on the Ameri- 

 can service of lawn tennis by Mr. P. A. Vaile. The 

 knack of throwing is illustrated in all forms of 

 athletic contortions by Mr. G. L. Jessop. The art of 

 diving is encouraged and described by Mr. Charles 

 L. Hammond, also with a great variety of action 

 photographs- The charm of living in tents as de- 

 scribed by Mr. Mecredy is separately noticed. A 

 dash of history is imparted in a paper by E. T. Lucas 

 on John Nyren, the man and his book, a great 

 cricketer who died in 1S37. 



THE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. 



The Enqlish Ilhistrated Magazine for July is a very 

 good number. 



It opens with an interesting article, by Mr. W. 

 Calvert, on Dartmouth. " the most quaint and pic- 

 turesque old town in the West." At one time Dart- 

 mouth rivalled the Cinque Ports in importance, and 

 Chaucer chose it as the probable residence of his 

 " Shippemau." An interesting street is the Butter 

 Walk, containing old houses of the Elizabethan 

 period. Dartmouth is one of the towns which once 

 possessed the right of coinage, and specimens of Dart- 

 mouth halfpennies still exist. A painter of interest- 

 ing bits and scenes of Dartmouth is Mr. J. L. Wim- 

 hiish. whose " Return of the Privateers " is reproduc- 

 ed as one of the illustrations of the article. 



Another article, by Mr. George Dennisson, is that 

 on the Prince of Evil, with illustrations of the demoD 



THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. 



The June number of the Atlantic M<mtMy opehs 

 with an article, by ^ir. Benjamin F. Trueblood, on 

 the Hague Conferences and the Future of Arbitration. 



A PERIODIC COXGEESS OF THE NATIONS. 

 Arbitration, he wr.tes, is no longer an experiment 

 but the settled practice of civilised nations when dis- 

 putes arise betweei them. During the last decade 

 there have been wars, certainly, but during the same 

 period there have been almost a hundred settlements 

 by arbitration. In reference to the next Hague Con 

 lerence the writer concludes : — 



" The greatest service which the governments can 

 do along this line wiU be the preparation of a treaty 

 providing for a permanent periodic congress of the 

 nations. The demand for the inauguration of a world 

 organisation of some sort has within a few years be- 

 come very strong. The subject has been taken up by 

 the Interparliamentary Union, as well as by all the 

 other leading peace agencies, and the conference will, 

 in all probability, be compelled by the force of public 

 ouinion to make it the leading topic of its action, as 

 the conference of 1899 was obliged in the same way to 

 give its foremost attention to that of a permanent 

 international tribunal. 



'■ A periodic congress of the nations, even if at first 

 it had no legislative functions, but only the power of 

 recommendation, would be of the very greatest value 

 to civilisation, not only directly, in its discussion of 

 questions of common interest to the nations, but alsn 

 in facilitating the work of the PeiTnaneut Court by 

 the development and better statement of international 

 law which would inevitably result from its periotlic 

 deliberations and conclusions.' 



HOW OUGHT WEALTH TO BE DISTRIBUTED? 



This article is followed bv one on the Distribution 

 of Wealth, by Mr. T. X. Carver. He suggests that 

 the old formula, " From every one according to his 

 abilit.v, to every one according to his needs," should 

 read " Let every one produce according to his ability, 

 and consume according to his needs," and adds: — 



The iudividaal whose moral development will lead him 

 to respond to such an appeal can be reashed as effectnally 

 under the present social system as under an.v other, while 

 he who will not respond volantarily could not be reached 

 under any system. 



The real work of the social reformer, however, is 

 thus summed up : — 



The reformer who works toward the fuller realisation 

 of the principle of distribution according to worth, tieefnl- 

 ness or service will be working in harmony with the laws 

 of social t>ro?res8. and his labours will, therefore, be 

 effective. Otherwise, he will be attempting to tarn society 

 backward, or to shunt it off on a sidetrack 



