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The Review of Reviews. 



NiiKH'jer 1, 1906. 



THE PALL MALL MAGAZINE. 



Tlieie is an interesting article in the September 

 I'liU iloU Magazine entitled "Wayside History; or, 

 tlie Camera and the Relic-Hunter." Mr. T. W. Wil- 

 kinson gives photographs and notes of a number of 

 objects, more or less curious, such as a ruined church 

 at Dunwich. an old lock-up at Wheatley, Aidin 

 Grange Bridge, the old Quintain at Offham, the 

 Eleanor Cross at Geddiugton, etc., etc. 



Commander Peary, who describes the charms and 

 the attractions of tlie North Pole and Arctic Explora- 

 tion, says the North Pole is tlie last great geographi- 

 cal prize which the world has to offer to adventurous 

 man, the prize for which the most enlightened na- 

 tions have been strno:gling for nearly four centuries. 

 The four things, cokU darkness, silence and hunger, 

 and the part they have played in Arctic expeditions, 

 arc discussed in turn. To the man of health these 

 have a strong fascination, and in addition there is 

 the call of novelty, there is the nature call, there is 

 the great day and the great night, and there is the 

 feeling of ownership which a man earns when he 

 lifts a new land or a new sea out of the darkness and 

 fixes it for ever upon the chart. 



Mr. Maurice Steinmann describes an ascent of 

 Mont Blanc with pen and camera ; and Mr. Keighley 

 Snowden depicts vividlv a Day in the Life of an 

 Engine-Driver. With Mr. P. H. Oakley Williams's 

 artTcle on Ballooning, the current number of the 

 I'all Mall Magazine is a capital outdoor number. 



TJHE TREASURY. 



To the Treasury Dr. E. Hermitage Day contributes 

 a. delightful historical article, his subject being St. 

 Edward, King and Confessor, and the foundation of 

 Westminster Abbey. Alas ! only a few stones now re- 

 main of the building as witnesses of his devotion, 

 and he was denied the desire of his heart — to be 

 present at its consecration. A topical article is that 

 by Eflie Bruce on the Hop Gardens of Kent. The 

 hop plant is very sensitive. Cold, wet nights and 

 ficst soon leave their mark on the plants, while the 

 blight caused by the aphis is often disastrous. Con- 

 stant washing is resorted to for the destruction of the 

 pest, and this is carried out by laro;e engines, which 

 force the spraying solution along pipes laid between 

 the rows of hops. The Rev. F, G. Scott, the Cana- 

 dian poet, some of whose lines Mr. Chamberlain 

 quoted in a recent speech, comes in for an apprecia- 

 tive notice by the Rev. E. J. Bidwell. Sir Edward 

 Russell, the journalist, is interviewed as a present 

 day Churchman, and Dean Swift is treated of as an 

 eighteenth century Churchman, by M. V. Wollaston. 



THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. 



The United Service Magazine for .September has in 

 it a great range of reading matter. The general reader 

 will, perhaps, find the account of '' Some Experiences 

 on Plague Duty in Ondia " the most interesting and 

 entertaining. The most serious paper is that on 

 modern war vessels, by ■ Veritas Vincet." in which 

 he advocates the supersession of the present cruisere 

 by fast armoured vessels possessing the maximum 

 powers of offence. This, with the battleship and the 

 torpedo craft, could constitute the three types of 

 vessel. He delights in the extraordinary assimila- 

 tive power of the British Royal Navy. There is the 

 usual grumble about the treatment of the Army oflS- 

 cer and the food of the soldier. To make recruiting 

 more popular and our soldiers more valuable indus- 

 trially, ".Apprentice" suggests that the troops should 

 be trained as shoeing smiths, saddlers, carpenters, 

 glaziei-s, and plumbers, telegraphists and horsemaster- 



ship. There is a spirited account of the action of 

 "decoy ducks" — troops sent to draw the fire of the 

 enemy— in the battle of Doriikop, during the South 

 African War. There are several historical papers. 

 In one Mr. Percival A. Hislam recalls the fact that 

 the Tnited States Navy began in resolutions of Con- 

 gress on the 25th of November. 1775. The first Uni- 

 ted States squadron was put into commi-ssion in De- 

 cember of the same year, and only when it had some- 

 what ignominiously failed was John Paul .Jones, on 

 the lt)th of May, 177(3. given his first command. It 

 is he that has obtained the title of the founder of the 

 American Navy. 



HARPER'S MAGAZINE. 



Mr. W. D. Howells, who has written so many 

 charming articles on England, publishes one on 

 •■ Canterbury and Other Kentish Neighbourhoods," in 

 the September Harper. Without its cathedral. Can- 

 terbury, he says, would still be worthy of all wonder; 

 but nith it. what shall one say? 'The towers and 

 pinnacles of the mighty bulk, yet too beautiful to 

 seem big. soar among the tender forms, for the Eng- 

 lish sky is so low and the church so high. As to 

 Rye, Sir. Howells would like to go there May after 

 May, as long as the world stands. 



I'nder the title of ''The Chemistry of Commerce" 

 Professor Robert K. Duncan writes of the wonders of 

 cellulose. He describes the substanse called cellulose 

 as the organic archetype of conservatism. From the 

 industriaf .standpoint, the utility of cellulose is stu- 

 pendous. The paper factories, the factories for cot- 

 ton and linen fabrics, and many other industries all 

 use cellulose, and yet we are told that we have only 

 entered on the fringe of its possibilities. For in- 

 stance : — 



Cellulose seems, to a certain extent, a conductor of elec- 

 tricity. Attach a coin to the positive end of a battery and 

 a slieet of moist paper to the negative end; press the coin 

 (in the paper, .ind. after suitable development, the image 

 illustrated on the preceding page is formed upon the 

 paper. 



Reverse the polarity and press the com on the paper. 

 \'o result is apparent, for the image is latent, but even 

 after the lapse of months treat it with silver salt and de- 

 veloper, and there will at once le seen the im.ige of the 

 coin It is by no means impossible that this little fact 

 will lead to a method of electrical printing without ink. 



THE ARENA. 



The Arena for August is as progressive and pro- 

 pulsive as ever. Mr. Elliott's alarming picture of 

 our nest ice-age has been quoted elsewhere. Louise 

 Markscheffel insists on "the right of the child not to 

 be born,'' and asks whether it would not be a benefit 

 rather than a misfortune if there were no children 

 born for three years. Would there not be greater 

 attention paid to the child-problems of to-day — 

 training, feeding, housing, etc.? Mr. B. O. Flower 

 gives a laudatory sketch of Mr. George Taylor of 

 Sydney, an AiKstralian artist who believes in art for 

 moral progress. His pictures are striking enough. 

 ^Irs. Spencer Tra.sk discusses the Virgin Birth in a 

 way to sugge.st that we are approaching a rush of 

 ancient Greek Cliristology in modern phra.se. Mr. J. 

 ^forris looks forward to the mechanical production 

 of food in the future, and to the consequent monopoly 

 by Trusts of the mechanical factories. Charles Kas- 

 sel takes the poet Byron as a study in heredity, and 

 recalls the profligate character of the poet's father 

 and other forbears. Mr. G. W. .James points out to 

 San Francisco her great opportunity for securing 

 public control of the water supply, buildings well built 

 and fire-proof, and laying out the new city well. The 

 frontispiece is a portrait of Dr. Alfred Russel Wal- 

 lace. 



