The Reviews Reviewed. 



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THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. 



Thk unique renown of the July number is its 

 containing the paper by Lord Rosebery on the coming 

 of Bonaparte. 



LORD kitchener's WORK IN EGYPT. 



Sir George .\rthur gives a very eulogistic survey of 

 Lord Kitihencr's work in I\gypt, and renders it all the 

 more impressive by the enumeration of the difficulties 

 he had to face : — 



II needs but a superficial study of the White Paper to recog- 

 nise that the British agent's first care has been to secure the 

 good of the Egyptian people, and to show them in what 

 direction health and happiness and prosperity lie ; to teach 

 them that the great future of their country depends on their 

 osvn united eft'orts, and that those eflorts, instead of being dis- 

 sipatea in (he glorification of this or that political faction, must 

 be concentrated on the development of the rich resources whiclt 

 lie at their feel. The strong soldier who has at times been 

 accused of lack of sympathy and of holding hum.in life too 

 cheap, is revealed as the man for whom every detail affecting 

 the lives, and especially the humble lives, which lie within the 

 scope of his influence is of absorbing and vital interest. 



LORD Hugh's " conserv.\tism." 



Mr. A. A. Baumann, reviewing Lord Hugh Cecil's 

 " Conservatism," applauds Lord Hugh for separating 

 political economy from ethics, and condemns him for 

 joining politics with religion. He says : — 



The regnant merit of his little volume is that it distinguishes 

 the three streams of opinion that converge in the Conservative 

 Party : pure or natural Conservatism (caution ,-ind content), 

 Toryism (religion and authority, or Church and King), and 

 Imperialism (Tariff Reform, a big Navy, and national military 

 service). Lord Hugh hints that temperamental Conservatism is 

 the strongest, as it is certainly the most enduring, of these forces. 

 The statesman who can unite these three forces, between which 

 there is at present a certain amount of friction, in an enthusiastic 

 and harmonious party will be the most powerful leader the 

 w'vld has ever seen. 



TWO EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURESSES. 



H.H. Prince Bariatinsky tells the romantic story 

 of the I'riiuess Tarakanova, who, though of origin 

 unknown, managed to take Paris by storm, ingratiate 

 herself w ith one grade of nobility after another, become 

 betrothed to one tilled dupe after another, lived on her 

 fa.scinations, and eventually imagined herself the legiti- 

 mate heir to the crown of Russia. Finally, she was 

 captured by a base act of treachery on board of a 

 Russian man-o'-war,and taken to Russia, whereshe died 

 in prison, Catherine the Great could not forgive her. 

 .Mr. Francis Gribblc tells the story of Mademoiselle 

 Montansier, who also aro.se from nothing until, after a 

 voiith of brilliant gallantry, she ran a the.itre at 

 Nantes, which she made pay so well that she built a 

 great theatre at Versailles, became the titular direc- 

 tor of various theatres in the pr()\inces, and after the 

 storm of the Revolution, through which she held her 

 own, came within an ace of marrying Napoleon Bona- 

 parte. She acluallv trot eight millions compensation 



for a theatre that was closed during her imprisonment 

 in the Revolution. She kept on her management of 

 theatres until she was eighty-two, and died at the age 

 of eighty-five. 



the ENGLISH OF AN ANGRY CRITIC. 



Mr. G. H. Powell does not hesitate to criticise the 

 anti-Romanticists, notably Mr. Bernard Shaw, and in 

 the second line Mr. G. K. Chesterton, with caustic 

 humour. He closes with this extraordinary para- 

 graph :— 



In the obscurantist intellectual jungle of anti-romanticism, if 

 it so elect to call itself, strange flights of gaudy-coloured, 

 lou lly-screaming parrots, strange chatterations of simian con- 

 tortionists ensconced up more or less inaccessible trees, are 

 noticeable enough. They may or may not indicate the probable 

 emergence of some larger and more satisfying game. 

 OTHER ARTICLES. 



Jlr. Robert Machray reviews the recent history of 

 the great Republic of China, and while granting that 

 the Republic will have its troubles, and serious enough 

 ones, to face, holds that the balance of probabilities 

 certainly suggests its lasting a while. Two letters by an 

 officer named Frederick Monro, descriptive of the 

 lia'ltle of Salamanca, are published as a centenary 

 commemoration of that event. Mr. Benjamin Taylor 

 declares that the Socialists are becoming masters of the 

 Labour world, and the extreme wing of the Labour 

 leaders hold the issue in their own hands. Trade 

 Unionism without discipline must die, and Trade 

 Unionism bound in the shackles of Socialism must also 

 die. Mr. John F. MacdonakI gives a very vivid and 

 humorous description of the visit of the five hundred 

 London children to Paris. 



THE LONDON QIJ.\RTERLY 

 REVIEW. 



The Julv number has a great deal of general interest, 

 besides notes 'and discussions of special interest to 

 theologians. Mr. George Jackson contributes an appre- 

 ciation of Dean Church, whom he describes as at once 

 the most cultured and the most completely Christian 

 man of his generation. Dr. Rendcl Harris tells the 

 story of a new St. Teresa, or " Therese of the Child 

 Jesus and of the Holy Face," for whom beatification is 

 sought. Dr. Harris describes with Quaker bluntness 

 what he calls the " Roman Catholic lies," but 

 shows a genuine appreciation of what is beautiful, 

 human, natural and Christian in her character. 

 Principal Garvie insists that the rapid process of uni- 

 fying mankind demands that the one world be con- 

 fronted by one Gospel and one Church — the last based 

 on the ("ongregalional idea of local freedom coml)incd 

 with the largest Catholic unity. Dr. Aubrey treats of 

 the merits and mistakes of Puritanism, and is, perhaps, 

 r.ither loo severe on the latter. Dora ^L Jones supplies 

 an interesting study of English writers in the making 

 of Italv. 



