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The Review of Reviews. 



THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. 



Several articles have been noticed elsewhere from 

 the September issue. 



NEW USES FOR OLD C.\TIIEDRALS. 



Canon Barnett thinks that our ancient cathedrals 

 nre specially designed to help in the spiritualising of 

 modern life. He advises that they might be used for 

 I ivic, county, and national functions, for intercession 

 it times of crises, and for services in connection with 

 conferences for scientific and trade and social reform 

 purposes. He would have the newly-elected civic 

 council gathered in the cathedral. The clergv attached 

 to the cathedral should gi\'e classes or lectures in 

 sociological, theological, and historical subjects, and 

 regular teaching should be given in the relation of 

 music to worship. The staff should also instruct visitors 

 .ind their guides in the living significance of the sacred 

 ])ast. The last suggestion is a calendar of worthies, and 

 a lecture every month on one such worthy. 



A GREAT FIND IN ASIA MINOR. 



-Sir William Ramsay describes a disco\erv made by 

 his party last year — one of the greatest theocratic 

 rcntres in Asia Minor, the sanctuary of Men Askaenos 

 at .Antioch, the Phrygian city riear Pisidia : — 



It li.is been commonly understood that the god of Antioch 

 h.id his seat in the city ; but Strabo says clearly that the 

 sanctuary was near, not in, .\ntioch. The actual position is on 

 1 sleep mountain-peak on the opposite (left) side of the river 

 Anlhios (which llows close under the city walls) about two 

 miles to the south of the city, and nearly 1,500 feet above the 

 stream. A great altar, 66 feet by 41 feet, was the holy place. 

 It stood on the summit of the mountain in a plot of ground, 

 230 feet by 137 feet, which w.as defined by high walls. The 

 west wall is best preserved, and stands nearly 10 feet high, but 

 must originally have been liigher ; its front was concealed in 

 great part by fallen blocks of stone. The face of this wall, and 

 all the buttresses which strengthen it, were covered with 

 dedications to the god, a sufficiently abundant proof that the 

 sanctuary was dedicated to Men .-\skaenos. 



BACON AS IRISH REFORMER. 



Mr. J. M. Robertson describes Bacon as politician, 

 " the typical English political thinker of that time," 

 if practicality be the English characteristic. In 1602 

 Hacon submitted to his cousin Sir Robert Cecil con- 

 siderations touching the Queen's service in Ireland. 

 Bacon urged : — (i) The extinguishing of the relics of 

 the war ; (2) the reco\ery of the hearts of the people : 

 (,^) the remo\-ing of the root and occasions of new 

 troubles; (4) plantations and buildings. Mr. Robert- 

 son also applauds Bacon's suggestion on the union 

 between England and Scotland ; he outlined such a 

 union as might have averted the civil war and the 

 Highland rebellion of the next centurv. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 



Canon Rawnsley calls attention to Charles Dickens's 

 connection with the Lake District in his friendship 

 with Mr. Angus Fletcher, a native of the Lake District, 

 with whom Dickens travelled in Scotland and Italy. 

 Mr. A. J. Philip suggests a central reference library for 

 London, consisting of books purchased from its own 

 funds at the rate of ^^30,000 per annum, and the use of 

 I he present reference stock of all the libraries of 



I,ondon, anything from a million upwards. The Rev. 

 .■\le.\ander Brown urges against certain eschatological 

 fancies of Schweitzer and others that the programme 

 of Jesus was simple, reasonable, and now almost ful- 

 filled. The " end of the age " was the close of the 

 Jewish dispensation. Mr. Herbert Burrows emphasises 

 an.d commends the Montessori method of spontaneous 

 education. 



THE NATIONAL REVIEW. 



The September number is not all pitched in the 

 shrill tone of its monthly chronicle. There is a quaint 

 and eerie paper by Weyland Keene, entitled " In 

 Search of Silence,'' descriptive of a pilgrim seeking, 

 amid the Alpine snows, freedom from the sound of 

 human voices, and returning with difficulty from the 

 spell of the eternal solitudes cured of his misanthropic 

 taste. There is also an outspoken paper on mother- 

 hood, quoted elsewhere, by a writer who purports to 

 speak in the name of the best women of Europe. 



A minor novelist tells of his e.xperience with 

 publishers — " thirteen years' hard labour, fourteen 

 novels published, three novels unpublished, and £646," 

 an average of about £40 per volume less the cost of 

 .typing and postage. Driving a ta.xi-cab, he says, is 

 less risky and more remunerative. 



Mr. Maurice Low says that if ever times were favour- 

 able for radical success in the United States, now is 

 the titne. For the people were never so discontented, 

 though he finds it hard to explain this discontent. If 

 all the Bills before Congress reducing the tarifi were to 

 pass, it would only reduce the cost of living per head 

 yd. a week. He mentions that after a Presidential 

 election every chairman and treasurer immediately 

 burn their books, but .it is estimated that Mr. 

 McKinlev's first election cost eleven million dollars. 



'I'wo papers deal with the relations of England and 

 Italv. both of which seem to be thus motived : England 

 and Italy need each other for mutual protection 

 against the overweening power of Germany. There- 

 fore it is well for us to say beautiful and complimentary 

 things about Italy in the present war. Thus, Earl Percy 

 applauds the policy, the patriotism, the efficiency, the 

 strategy, the valour, and the humanity of Italy, and 

 denounces English censure or coldness towards tho.se 

 Paladins of modern war. Gian Delia Quercia is equally 

 wroth with the critif ism that " disgraced " the British 

 Press. Italy is a nation worthy of lingland's respect. 

 Let luigland cultiwile Italy and not shrink from, in 

 turn, making lingland herself worthy of veneration. - 



" Navalis," in the approved " new style," denounces 

 Mr. Winston Churchill as a " treacherous windbag," 

 who has betrayed the Navy. '' We have not sullicient 

 ships, we have not sufficient men, we have not sulTicient 

 docks, we have no well-protected bases in the North 

 Sea." The writer imperiously demands a special 

 squadron of battleships laid down for the Mediter- 

 ranean, two ships this year, twoshipsnextyear, two ships 

 in each following vear till a total of eight is reached. 



