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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



October 1, 1913. 



and we are assured that in that country 

 our people will find ample opportunity 

 to make themselves useful and to earn a 

 comfortable competence The Govern- 

 ment of Brazil has shown Japan every 

 respect, and provided every facility for 

 giving our immigrants a chance to see 

 what they can do. Large districts of 

 land have been leased to us for colonisa- 

 in one of the most fertile regions 

 of the country; and there our people 

 can settle and make home- without fear 

 of molestation " 



THE LONDON. 



The special holiday number includes 

 a consideration of " The Problem of the 

 Surplus Woman," by Twells Brex. The 

 writer's argument is based on the fact 

 that there are eighteen men to every 

 seventeen women in the United King 

 i. In round figures this dispropor- 

 tion amounts to a surplus of more than 

 a million females. The writer interprets 

 this in terms of the marriage state : 



" It means that if marriage is the 

 iral complement of all happy and 

 healthy human life, there is one uncom- 

 pleted and unfulfilled existence among 

 even' thirty five people. It means that 



' zero ' must turn up for someone in the 

 spin of every thirty-five destinies. And, 

 if I may make a ' bull ' to point the 

 argument, the 'odd man out' is, tragi- 

 cally and inequitably, always a woman." 



Harry Vardon writes an instructional 

 article on "The Winning Golf Grip." 

 William Gray tells us " How a Revue is 

 Produced." " How London Succeeds in 

 Being the Healthiest City in the 

 World " is described by James Sherliker. 



UNITED EMPIRE. 



United Empire, the Journal of the 

 Royal Colonial Institute, publishes the 

 text of an interesting address recently 

 delivered before the Institute on " The 

 Northern Territories of the Gold Coast," 

 by Captain C. H. Armitage, who, speak- 

 ing of the little understood native 

 faiths, said : — 



" The religion of the natives of 

 Ashanti and the Northern Territories 

 must be described at animism — in the 

 former of a higher, and in the latter of 

 a cruder, form. Both believe in a deity, 

 who is of such supreme transcendence as 

 to be far beyond the reach of prayer or 

 appeal." 



THE DEPARTURE OF COLUMBUS 

 From a rare old painting (artist unknown). 



