il. Timehri. 
Foreign Trade” Mr. J. Van Sertima follows up the economic questions 
opened up in his article in the last issue of this journal. His article brings 
together figures highly valuable for comparisons from which conclusions 
as to the commercial position and tendencies may be drawn. The vexed 
question of the exact significance of the export- import ratio is touched 
upon, and there will doubtless be different opinions upon the moral to be 
drawn from the excess of one or the other, but this in no way affects 
the value of the writer's contribution to the subject. 
Mr. Fred: C. 8. Bascom’s article on ‘‘ The Labour Question ” is likely 
to attract as much attention as any, and deserves careful study and 
consideration. In a land in which millions of acres are not only unexploit- 
ed but unexplored, the population question, as distinct from the labour 
question, may well engage the thoughts of every citizen, if only because 
the upkeep of a large estate with “small resources is likely to be trying 
in proportion to the plenitude of the acres and the paucity of the means 
to work them. Asa resident sugar planter, engaged in the administration 
of his own property, Mr. Bascom’s views on the labour problem in relation 
to production for the world’s markets should have great weight with 
those interested directly and vicariously in the same industry. 
In the article on “ Labour and Food ” the writer has found out the 
fact referred to in another article that ‘ of statistics of our home trade and 
industries there are none,” but states an aspect of the problem of produc- 
tion which some may think worthy of further investigation. 
“A View of Canadian Law” presented by Mr. Justice Riddell of 
Toronto so combines expert statement of doctrine and procedure in the 
Courts of Canada with a humorous appreciation of the relations of law 
and life, that others than our legal readers will find instruction and enter- 
tainment in its perusal. 
In two articles on our East Indian citizens the venerable Archdeacon 
Josa and Mr. E. A. Luckhoo touch upon the characteristics and customs 
of this people in their western place of sojourn. Mr. Luckhoo, as one of 
the race who has raised himself to prominence in the community, gives 
perhaps the best practical answer to questions as to the position of the 
East Indian immigrant, questions which have engaged the attention of 
Royal Commissions and aroused from time to time excited, if ill-informed, 
criticism in Parliament and popular meeting house, when he points to his 
compatriots in civil employment, Government Medical Service, and 
professional employinent, some with University degrees and qualifications 
the means to which careers were put within their reach by the immigra- 
tion system of the colony. 
* Moruca” by the Rev. Father Lickert, $.J., deseribes in sym- 
pathetic vein a bush pilgrimage and gives the reader some pretty 
sketches of Aboriginal Indian life. Father Cooksey, S.J., deals with 
the Indians of the great North Western District of the colony, and 
