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The Review of Reviews. 



THE HIBBERT JOURNAL. 



The most striking papers in the October 

 number — a native of Fiji's plea for Christian 

 polytheism, and H. V. Arkcll's account of 

 the regeneration of the Catholic Church in 

 France as a result of Disestablishment — have 

 been separately noticed. 



Mr. F. I. Paradise illustrates the exuberant 

 optimism of the American by acclaiming Mr. 

 Roosevelt's new departure as the unrolling of 

 the splendour of God, and as the initiation of a 

 new era of industrial and social justice achieved 

 through the genuine rule of the people. He sees 

 signs of the coming renaissance of religious 

 faith on a national scale. 



Mr. A. J. F. Blair pleads for the higher 

 Socialism, which would, without violent 

 changes, so transform the social atmosphere 

 and awaken the social conscience that a mil- 

 lionaire will come to feel as much ashamed of 

 himself as a man who has been warned off the 

 Turf. " When it becomes as disreputable to 

 be a millionaire as to be known to have ro'bbed 

 a bank, the main attraction of immense wealth 

 will have disappeared." 



Mr. L. P. Jacks shows that under democracy 

 the area of authority is being steadily expanded, 

 and asks whether the people are being trained 

 for the corresponding habit of obedience. 



The Hon. Bertrand Russell finds the essence 

 of religion in the quality of infinity, and wishes 

 to preserve three elements in Christianity — 

 namely, worship, acquiescence, and love, but 

 declares that it is not necessary that the object 

 of worship should exist as long as one wishes 

 it to exist ! 



Mr. Edwin Bevan, writing on the Gnostic 

 Redeemer, says that no real parallel has been 

 foimd to the belief of the Divine One " taking 

 upon Himself for love of man the form of a 

 servant." 



Mr. J. W. Scott impeaches the doctrine of 

 Bergson as destructive of the notion of per- 

 sonality, and so leading to pessimism. 



Professor Lobstein endeavours to estimate 

 the worth of Tyrrell to the Protestant con- 

 sciousness. 



Mr. T. R. Glover rec.-dls the dtemon environ- 

 ment of the primitive Christians, and observes 

 that it was broken down not by philosophy and 

 science but by the ideas and personality of 

 Jesus of Nazareth. 



M. J. Lnnda discusses the future of Judaism 

 in England, and says that the majority of the 

 would-be reformers are indiffercntists. They 

 will probably drift awaV froin Judaism. The 

 others will remain within the orthodox fold and 

 observe just so much of the ancient faith as 

 suits them. 



THE DUTCH REVIEWS. 



De Gids contains several contributions con- 

 cerning Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosbooir.- 

 Toussaint, the celebrated authoress, the cen- 

 tenary of whose birth was duly ob.served on 

 September i6. From these contributions, and 

 from another in De Tijdspicgcl, we learn that 

 she was a noble woman who ever worked for 

 the advancement of the Dutch people. Her 

 romances might interest English people ; she has 

 dealt with Leicester and Queen Elizabeth, Lady 

 Margaret Douglas, and others. This review also 

 publishes an article on the report of a Commis- 

 sion enquiring into the matter of the revision 

 of the Dutch Constitution, with a view to 

 certain electoral changes. These include Pro- 

 portional Representation, Manhood Suffrage, 

 and Female Suffrage. 



" Army and School " is the title of the open- 

 ing contribution to De Tijdspicgcl. It is 

 generally conceded that physical and mental 

 training should go hand in hand ; it is also 

 agreed that the country should be in a position 

 to defend itself from foreign aggression. There- 

 fore some kind of military training would be 

 good from all points of view, for it develops the 

 physique, it teaches the art of national defence, 

 and it inculcates discipline and obedience, also 

 the knowledge how to command. There is a 

 philosophic article on free will, in which the 

 writer contends that the will is free, and gives 

 definitions of terms. 



In Elsevier, the illustrated article on Venetian 

 glass work is exceedingly interesting ; the text 

 is instructive and the pictures show some excel- 

 lent specimens of the art, including old vases 

 that delight the eye. Filigree work, according 

 to Venetian tradition, was discovered in 1540, 

 and seven years later an edict was promulgated 

 that forbade the glass workers to make the 

 process known to outsiders. 



Vragen des Tijds also deals with the question 

 of boys doing military exercises in order to 

 prepare them for the time when they, as young 

 men, will take up military duties in earnest, and 

 in order to give them a liking for the same. 

 The article contains much information on the 

 general subject of young men and the .'\rmy, 

 and the writer reminds us that in olden times 

 (notablv in the British Navy) lads of twelve arid 

 thirteen were not infrequently employed on 

 active service. The long school vacations afford 

 splendid opportunities. 



In another contribution, Anna Polak writes 

 forcibly about the position of women in the 

 labour market and the hostility of certain 

 politicians to any enlargement of the feminine 

 sphere of activity. 



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