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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. 



Tlie Eiliiiburqh Bevifw is very literary tliis quarter, 

 althnugh it open's witli a political review. 



MR. WINSTON CmjRCHILL. 

 The reviewer thinks Mr. Winston Churchill nia.v 

 eclipse his father: — 



Whatever judgment men may pass on tlie career of Lord 

 Randolph C'lmrchill. no one can dispute the great literary 

 talent shown by his son in the brilliant biograpliy he has 

 given to the public. 



Courage, originality, brilliant wit. united with infinite 

 painstaking, never fail to win the ear of the British reople. 

 and this alone suffices to some extent ti make a man a 

 power in the laud. In these resj^ects tl-e sou has trodden 

 in his father's footsteps; and if in addition to the great 

 gifts which he has inherited Mr. Winston Churchill proves 

 that he possesses certain qualitie3 in which Tjord Randolph 

 was lacking— the capacity to work and co-oi3erate with 

 otlier men even wlien tiiey are not his subordinates, and 

 the power of inspiring the public witli confidence in his 

 character as well as with admiration for his cleverness 

 and courase. it is not easy to set limits to the height to 

 which that son's abilities may yet raise him. A man of 

 moods, without fixed principles, cannot be expected to give 

 steady guidance to the State. To excel in the party game 

 will not suffice. Lord Randolph Churchill was grearly 

 gifted, but it was not possible for him to play the part, 

 or leave behind him the reputation of a great statesman. 



MARION CRAWFCTRDS PLACE IN FICTION. 



The Edinbunili reviewer says that — 



To attempt any flefinite assessment of a living writer is 

 always a folly as well as an impertinence. We shot'U'. 

 however, all ag ee that Mr. Crawford's place would never 

 be above 1hat class wliich falls short of tlie highest -to 

 which are assigned writers such as Trollope and Mrs. 

 Oliphant. Mrs. Oliphant. is nearer his mark than tie 

 creator of Mrs. Prou.'lie and Archdeacon Grantly; any of 

 Mr. Crawford's characters will pale bes de these robust 

 Britons. Perhaps the conijiarison sugges s that wliat Mr. 

 Crawford lacks m^st is what Trollope possesses most - 

 homeliness. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 

 The other essa.vs include a paper on the great Mar- 

 quis of Ormonde. Descartes, and Marino Falser. There 

 is a sketch of Viterbo and a somewhat slight review 

 on '■ Memoirs of the Whig Party." 



THE HIBBERr JOUKNAI. 



No one who wishes to keep posted in t!ie latest de- 

 velopment of religious thouglit ean afford to ignore 

 the Hil>h'rt Jnurnal. It is full of free but reverent 

 speculations concerning all the fundamentals of reli- 

 gious faith. There has been nothing like it since the 

 palmy days of the Fortiiightlu. the C nitetiiporary. and 

 the Ninettenfh Cf.ntury. Each of these reviews was in 

 turn the arena in which the leading thinkers of the 

 day debated the burning questions of the time. What 

 they were the Hihheii is. The current number is full 

 of thought-compelling matter. 



THE SIN OP CREEDS. 

 Still more radical is Mr. Garnett's protest against 

 any affirmation of belief: — 



Under the sanction of the Church, belief is treated as 

 something that can be expressed in a given form of worrls. 

 at stated moments, or as a verbal assent to certain trutl-s. 

 In opposition to this, I hold that the bet ef demandeil by 

 Christ cannot possibUv be affirmed in words. Man's whole 

 life is the only true expression of his belief. The Church 

 cannot, without the gravest risk, permit her members to 

 make an unqualified affirmation of belief in (lod. 



WANTED— A REAL GOD. 

 Another article in a very opposite sense, but one full 

 of serious earnest thought, is Dr. Forsyth's paper 

 urging that the doctrine of Grace may serve as a rally- 

 ing point of the Free Churches. At present, lie says: — 



The whole economy of Atoning Grace, while not denied, 

 is only kept as in some houses you find the old spinning- 

 wheel kept in the warm drawing-room. It is not a more 

 ideal God we need, but a more real God, actual in and 

 over life. We want a God real, not only to our thought, 

 our piety, our devotion, hut to our life's action, private 

 and social, industrial and national. Our first want is not 

 a real religion but a real God as the practical moral 

 power in life and society, whom to know is the solution 

 I'f life and the consummation of tlie race. We do possess 

 sircerity in our faith; it is reality we need. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 

 Canon Knox iLiittle's paper on Denominat'onalism 

 and Undenominationalism calls neither for comment 

 nor quotation, Mr, Macgregor's "Great Fallacy of 

 Idealism " defies condensation. Professor Henry Jones 

 discourses on the coming of Socialism. 



THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. 



The Architectural Bevinv for July is a notable pro- 

 duction. It contains sketches for the reconstruction 

 of San Francisco by H. Scheffauer. These plans were 

 a strange anticipation of the present opportunity. On 

 January 1,5th, 1904, the Association for the Improve- 

 ment and Adornment of San Francisco was formed. 

 The object of this Association was the beautifying of 

 the streets. It secured the honorary services of D, iH. 

 Birnham. wlio, in conjunction with otheis. prepared 

 plans that were last September finally accepted by the 

 mayor and the municipality. It is according to these 

 plans that the new city is now to rise out of the ruins 

 of the old, • without be"ing extended over a long period 

 of time in the usual manner of growth," The general 

 plan is an adaptation to the local geography of the 

 principle of a number of concentric rings .separated by 

 boulevards. A special correspondent describes the 

 Milan Exhibition, with beautiful pictures of its build- 

 ings. The new Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcaetle- 

 on-Tyne, is depicted at great length in a series of 

 magnificently reproduced photographs occupying thirty- 

 one large pages. The whole magazine forms an hon- 

 ourable monument of the constructive genius of the 

 English-speaking race, and not least of the art of the 

 Britislx printer. 



THE WORLD'S WORK AND PLAY. 



The contents of the August number are very varied, 

 breezy, and readable. Five articles have claimed 

 separate notice. Mr. Robert Cromie recounts the 

 wonderful progress of the turbine, and gives a portrait 

 of Mr. Parsons, the inventor. The return of the 

 marble industry to our shore is described with illus- 

 trations by Mr. B. B. Chapman. Tlie future of the 

 British Navy is discussed by Mr. Fred. T. Jane, who 

 infers from trie recent naval manoeuvres that the 

 changes introduced by wireless telegraphy demand 

 an enormously superior force to ensure success. He 

 laughs at the idea of any reduction in our naval ar- 

 maments. The uses of heather and of horses' hair 

 form the subject of two interesting articles. Mr. 

 Percy Collins reveals the secrets of the manufacture 

 of ' fakes,' or clever forgeries of the antique, Mr. J. 

 E. Whitby tells how the dog in harness is used as a 

 parcels postman in Holland, and a most valuable 

 helper to the Belgian peasant, and asks, are we not 

 depriving ourselves of a willing servant ? 



In the lieliquary for July Mr. J. Charles Wall has 

 two articles on Lastingham Church, in Yorkshire, 

 noteworthy for its pure Norman crypt, a perfect sub- 

 terranean church, built by Stephen. Abbot of Whitby, 

 for the body of St. Cedd. 



