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The Review of Reviews. 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



Of the sixteen papers in the July number several 

 have been separately noticed. The rest appeal to a 

 great variety of interest. 



THE CHINESE TRADITION AND THE REPUBLIC. 



Mr. R. F. Johnston, of Wei-Hai-Wei, points out that 

 political sovereignty in China has always passed from 

 dvnasty to dynasty, never from dynasty to people : — 



From the remotest days of which we h.ive lecoid the Chinese 

 system of Government has been monarchic. If the revolution- 

 aries can breali with tradition to the extent of abolishing the 

 imperial dignity, what guarantee have we that they will not 

 break with tradition in every other respect as well, and so 

 destroy the foundations on which the whole edifice of China's 

 social, political, and religious life has rested through all the 

 centuries of her known history ? 



At the same time he grants that China may be 

 described as from of old the greatest Republic the 

 world has ever seen. 



TO SAVE THE FAUNA OF INDIA. 



Sir Harry Johnston laments the havoc that has been 

 wrought in the fauna of India by British military 

 officers. The civilian is more of a naturalist than a 

 hunter, and of the modern type of British soldier he 

 gives a very interesting report :— " What is a very 

 notable and' pleasant feature— due to the spread of 

 education— in the most modern types of British soldier 

 is that directly he becomes a non-commissioned officer, 

 and therefore has a little pocket-money to spare, he 

 turns photographer and draughtsman, and ends by 

 becoming an earnest ornithologist, entomologist, or 

 anthropologist." Sir Harry pleads for the establish- 

 ment in some parts of India of sanctuaries, in which 

 nothing whatever should be killed, not even poisonous 

 snakes. 



WHY TEETH DECAY. 



Dental caries in modern civilised communities is said 

 by Mr. A. S. Underwood to be more prevalent among 

 English-speaking and other civilised races now than 

 ever before. It is ten times as common in England and 

 America than it was 150 years ago. It is rapidly 

 increasing. It is due principally to the widespread and 

 spreading svstem of artificial feeding of infants. It 

 may be checked by a return to the simpler life in the 

 relations of mother and child, and by scrupulous 

 cleanliness during milk dentition and during aduh life, 

 as well as by wise selection of foodstuffs. 



A TERRIFIC PROBLEM OF DEFENCE. 



Major Stewart L. Murray sums up the strategic 

 prolilems of the Empire as four:— (i) The Russo- 

 Indian problem ; (2) the Turco-Egyptian and Middle 

 I'-ast problem ; (?) the Mastery of the Pacific problem ; 

 (^) the French Alliance or Balance of Power problem. 

 Unless we solve these problems, at the cost suggested, 

 wc must be ready to pay a war indemnity possibly of 

 eight hundred millions sterling. 



REPEALER FURIOSO. 



Mr. Charles Newton-Robinson demands the repeal 

 of the land ta.xes, imposed as they have been by " the 



Radical and robber Socialists," in strains like these : — 

 " No doubt Mr. Lloyd George and his familiar demons 

 in the thieves" kitchen of the land-taxers had ulterior 

 motives besides that of trying to filch ready money 

 from the pockets of landowners and house-property 

 owners on any half-plausible pretext." 



OTHER ARTICLI-.S. 



Mr. E. B. Osborn is content to let the Americans 

 carry off the Olympic prizes by their over-speciali- 

 sation. He prefers the kind of general- purposes 

 athlete, who can find health and joy in a variety 

 of sports, the true authentic Hellenic ideal. Mr. 

 Robert Fowler refuses to accept the verdict of the 

 post-futurists that all art hitherto has been a failure. 

 Mr. E. S. Bates gives some interesting peeps of Shake- 

 speare's England as seen by foreign visitors. The 

 shortage of horses for war, in view of the rapid elimina- 

 tion of" the horse by the motor-car, is made the subject 

 of serious practical suggestions by Major Schofield. 

 A very vivid account of the Battle of Salamanca is 

 reproduced from the letters of an officer in the Hussars 

 who was wounded in the engagement. 



THE WORLD'S WORK. 



How wide the horizon of the World's Work is may 

 be judged from its contents for July. Beginning with 

 the work of running the Empire in its newer develop- 

 ments, and pictures of leading men and women of 

 to-day, the magazine gives an estimate of the work of 

 the imperial Universities' Congress ; describes the 

 work of an Alpine guide; the construction of the 

 Jungfrau line, which is expected to be opened this 

 season ; the higher education of working women by 

 means of the Workers' Educational Association ; the 

 modern development of the music-hall ; the newest 

 kind of teaching associated with the name of Madame 

 Montessori ; the crusade against flies ; the progress 

 of the ioo,ooo-mile durability motor-car run ; the 

 methods of curing consumption in Brompton Hospital ; 

 the Founder's Day at Dr. Barnardo's Homes ; and a 

 paper from the inexhaustible pen of " Home Counties " 

 on the British farmer overseas and at home. 



THE ARENA. 



Curiously, both Clifton and Haileybury Schools 

 are this year celebrating their jubilee, and the Arena 

 gives sketches of both schools, with portraits and 

 reminiscences that will be dear to the hearts of the 

 old alumni. Dr. Lynam describes some Oxford gardens, 

 their history and present beauties. James Dixon 

 supplies an account of public school arms and their 

 histories. The Canadian Universities of the western 

 provinces are sketched by T. 1.1. Humberstone, and' 

 Mr. Leopold Katscher describes Japanese School and 

 University Life. An undergraduate reckons that the 

 interest in politics in Cainbridge University is steadily 

 increasing. The Liberals are zealous and the Fabians 

 very active. The magazine is beautifully illustrated, 

 and the get-up is very attractive. 



