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The Review of Reviews. 



sovereignty, so that the Cabinet and not the 

 monarchy is now the despot and the Ministers 

 composing the Cabinet are irresponsible. But, 

 as the Crown and not the House of Commons is 

 the centre of the Empire, the doctrine of Minis- 

 terial responsibility must receive a new 

 interpretation. 



Mrs. Frederic Harrison, after repeating some 

 outworn arguments against woman suffrage, 

 suggests that there should be constructed a sort 

 of standing committee of women known for 

 their efficiency as inspectors, examiners, etc., 

 with some dozen other women chosen from 

 outside, to act as a bureau of information to 

 receive complaints and collect evidence and serve 

 as a purely honorary body of a consultative 

 character on questions which concern women 

 and children. 



THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



The October number contains a wide range of 

 interest and variety. 



Mr. Herbert Samuel writes on Federal Govern- 

 ment, and hopes that such elements of federalism 

 as may suit the case will be brought in to correct 

 the present over-centralisation of the govern- 

 ment of the United Kingdom and under- 

 centralisation of the government of the Empire. 



A FREE ANGLO-AMERICAN CANAL. 



Of the Panama difficulty Mr. J. Ellis Barker 

 obligingly suggests the solution. Great Britain 

 should guarantee the position of the United 

 States at Panama, and the United States need 

 no longer fear the canal being attacked. The 

 Panama Canal should be freed from dues in the 

 same way in which the Danish Sound dues were 

 abolished. The extension of the Panama tolls 

 should be secured by the payment of a lump 

 sum, capitalising the average income to be 

 derived from the canal. In this Great Britain 

 might take the initiative. 



THE COMING DISMEMBERMENT OF CHINA. 



Dr. Dillon prophesies the dismemberment of 

 China within the next twelve, or even six, 

 months. He says : — 



Inner and Outer Mongolia linve severed their con- 

 nection with rhinn. Tibet has followed their example. 

 Russia finds a document which proves Mongolia's right 

 to secede. Great Britain refuses to recognise the world's 

 "youngest and greatest Republic" unless the Republic 

 formally undertakes to respect the virtual independence 

 of Tibet. St. Petersburg and Tokio accord to the Mon- 

 golian rebels the rights of biJHgerenls. The Tsar's 

 Government sends military instructors to Mongolia and 

 lells China that she may not exercise a vestige of real 

 sovereignty over that rebellious people. And the three 

 " friendly " Powers arc now turning the 1,546,000 square 

 miles of China proper into a v.ast Pale of Seltlemcnl in 



which 380 millions are to be cooped up henceforth, for- 

 bidden to settle not only abroad but even on the 2,744,000 

 square miles beyond the Wall which the Republic has 

 just proclaimed " integral parts of China." 



ARE THE IRISH UNFIT FOR HOME RULE? 



Mr. S. de Vere, writing from Limerick on the 

 social aspects of Home Rule, declares that the 

 Irishman, individually and collectively, is his 

 own worst enemy. He illustrates this position 

 by himself blackening the Celtic nature for its 

 contempt of law and order, its mistrust of fellow- 

 countrymen, dishonesty and corrupton. Ireland, 

 therefore, is unfit for Home Rule. 



HOW TO END ANGOLA SLAVERY. 



Mr. William Cadbury and Mr. E. D. Morel 

 suggest that this country, as guarantor of the 

 Portuguese African domain, should despatch a 

 special commission to Angola and the Islands to 

 investigate the deplorable conditions of the slave 

 traffic prevailing there. If it should be found 

 that Portugal cannot govern her vast depen- 

 dencies in West Africa humanely, we should do 

 everything to forward the transfer by friendly 

 agreement of such territories or parts of them 

 to other Powers \\ho will administer them 

 rightly. 



- TO HELP THE WOMAN BEHIND THE PURD.\. 



Captain Charles Rolleston pleads for the 

 extension of the system of lady advocates to pro- 

 tect women behind the purda in India from 

 being wrongfully deprived of their property, and 

 also for the Government encouragement of lady 

 doctors to save them from the brutalities and 

 worse of their present treatment in sickness. 



OTHER ARTICLES. 



Rev. A. H. T. Clarke, writing on the conflict 

 of religion and science, calmly announces that 

 the study of the geological record has killed 

 evolution. S. M. Mitra undertakes to prove the 

 presence of Christianity in Hinduism by finding 

 parallels to the Beatitudes and to the Ten Com- 

 mandments in the ancient scriptures of India. 

 Mr. Sydney Brooks shows how the New York- 

 police and magistracy are under the control of 

 the politicians, who have organised in their 

 service the criminals and desperadoes imported 

 from all parts of the world. Mrs. Hall repro- 

 duces the notes of an interview with Napoleon at 

 St. Helena in 1817, in which Captain Hall 

 learned from the illustrious captive that his 

 father, who was at school with him at Brienne, 

 was the first Englishman he ever saw. Mr. 

 C. E. .Stewart reproduces in facsimile a most 

 interesting statement of accounts by a visitor to 

 London in the year 1651. With that as clue the 

 writer gives a ven,- vivid picture of the capital in 

 long-gone times. 



