THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

I NOTICE elsewhere Dr. Jessopp's plea for teaching English history, and Lord Ribblesdale's conversation with Mr. Parnell. The rest of the number contains several noticeable articles-the best are the shortest.

THE LABOUR PROGRAMME FOR 1891.

Mr. H. H. Champion thus defines the five points of the labour programme for the coming election :

(1) The Eight Hour Day; (2) the Land for the People; (3) the Abolition of the Workhouse; (4) Taxation of large incomes and inheritances; (5) Protective labour legislation. These, being interproted, mean :—-

(1) An eight-hour day in Government workshops and factories; in specially hazardous and unhealthy occupations; in those in which overwork is dangerous to the public; and in enterprises which enjoy a monopoly granted by the legislature. (2) The compulsory purchase of land, which would allow co-operative cultivation on a large scale. (3) Old age pensions to be levied on the well-to-do. (4) Exemption from income-tax of incomes under £300; increase of tax on incomes over £1,000; heavier death duties. (5) Employers' Liability Bill, more inspectors, and a public prosecutor to watch every inquest on workmen killed at business.

To these proposals Mr. Champion adds a suggestion of his own for the saving of parliamentary time, which is novel:

The time during which a single member may occupy the atI believe tention of the House should be strictly limited. the available time divided by the number of members would I progive to each something like four minutes and a half. pose, making due extra allowance for spokesmen of the Government and perhaps of the Opposition, that each member, when he has consumed ten times his proportion, or say forty-five minutes, should be silent for the remainder of the week.

THE GERMAN PRESS.

Mr. Charles Lowe, late Times correspondent at Berlin, gives us a lamentable picture of the Jew-ridden Press of the Fatherland. There is to-day no German literature, he says; there is only a Jewish literature written in the German language. Most of the London dailies are now The represented by Jews both at Berlin and Vienna. The Jew German intellect is devoted to the sword. wields the pen. The journalist is despised in Germany It was Lassalle who alike by Emperor and by Socialist. declared that the journalists were a pack of fellows too lazy to work and too illiterate to be schoolmasters of children; while the Kaiser calls them Press scamps and forbids foreign correspondents to be received at his Court even if they have been preserted at their own. With the exception of the Kölnische, the German Press, "poor in means, as a whole is also petty in motive and performance, and may be said to be still in its teething period." If it has any teeth it will surely use them to bite Mr. Lowe.

HOW TO DISH THE HOME RULERS.

Viscount de Vesci, in an article entitled "Hibernia Pacata," suggests that if County Councils are established in Ireland there will be nothing left for the Home Rulers to clamour for :

If County Councils are once established and in working order, it may fairly be asked what possible duties would be left for a Home Rule Parliament to perform, even if the

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THE RED PRINCE.

There is no man living who can paint such pen-pictures of war as Archibald Forbes. In his review of Moltke's book on the Franco-German war the great war correspondent gives us several specimens of his brilliant style. Here, for instance, is his picture of the Red Prince at Vionville, Mars-la-Tour :

It was barely four o'clock when the Red Prince came galloping up the narrow hill-road from Gorzo; the powerful bay he rode all foam and sweat, sobbing with the swift exertion up the steep ascent, yet pressed ruthlessly with the spur;. staff and escort panting several horse-lengths in rear of the impetuous foremost horseman. On and up he sped, craning forward over the saddle-bow to save his horse, but the attitude suggesting the impression that he burned to project himself faster than the beast could cover the ground. No wolfskin, but the red tunic of the Zieten Hussars, clad the compact torso, but the straining man's face wore the aspect one associates with that of the berserker. The bloodshot eyes had in them a sullen lurid gleam of bloodthirst. The fierce sun and the long gallop had flushed the face a deep red, and the veins of the throat stood out. While as yet his road was through the forest, leaves and twigs cut by bullets showered down upon him. Just as he emerged on the open upland, a shell burst almost among his horse's feet. The iron-nerved man gave heed to neither bullet-fire nor bursting shell; no, nor even to the cheers that rose above the roar of battle. He spurred onward to Flavigny away yonder in the front line; the bruit of his arrival darted along the fagged ranks; and strangely soon came the recognition that a master soldier had gripped hold of the command as in a vice.

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.

Dr. Armand Ruffer discourses on the new science with all the enthusiasm of a neophyte trotting out Lister's antiseptic treatment, Pasteur's discoveries, etc., etc., almost as if they had been heard of for the first time. The article is marred by the puerile ejaculation of indignation at the law which requires even the Listers and the Pasteurs to obtain a licence before they can vivisect. The most interesting item in his paper is the account which he gives of the discovery by a Japanese doctor of the microbe of lockjaw, a discovery which enables them to cure lockjaw even when the disease is actually in progress and death is imminent.

WHY NOT ADOPT THE BERGEN SYSTEM?

Lord Meath, writing on the "Diminution of Drunkenness in Norway," makes the mouth of the temperance reformer to water. In most country places no drink is sold, and in the towns its sale is in the hands of societies who devote all the profit to the subsidising of temperance societies, the construction of public works of general utility, etc. etc. Norway has by this means regenerated its population. Alas! when will English temperance men consent to adopt the same simple means of attaining their ends?

OTHER ARTICLES.

Sir Herbert Maxwell has a charming paper on gardens, full of useful hints to the lover of flowers. Miss Ada Heather-Bigg gives a statistic-stuffed paper on "Women and the Glove Trade." The Rev. Professor Cheyne replies -not, however, in such a fashion as to interest the general reader to Mr. Gladstone's paper on "Ancient Beliefs and Immortality"; Prof. Blackie writes on "Shakespeare and Modern Greek"; the Hon. Martin Lister has rather a disappointing article on "Trade in the Malay Peninsula "; and Professor Hales explains that Milton proposed to write a play of "Macbeth" because he revolted against the liberties Shakespeare took with history, and also because Shakespeare had not sufficiently emphasized the wilfulness of Macbeth's sin.

THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.

THE Fortnightly Review reached me within a few hours of going to press. I can only spare, therefore, a very brief space for a notice of its contents. The opening article, "The British Army, or the Critics Criticised," by "B.," .," is an optimist statement of the case for the army. By the way, it is unpardonable to publish Sir F. Roberts' brief letter, as if it were an article on "The Demoralisation of Russia." The Commander-in-Chief in India says nothing about "the demoralisation of Russia"; he merely makes a personal explanation, correcting a

misstatement about himself in the article that bore

that heading. Mr. A. R. Wallace, writing on English and American Flowers," describes the flowers and forests of the Far West. Mr. J. B. Bury indulges in some reflections on the recent victory in favour of compulsory Greek at Cambridge. Mr. R. J. Mecredy sings the praises of cycling in Winter. He says the winter cyclist must wear woollen, avoid chills, and use a pneumatic-tyred cycle. Mr. J. G. Colmer explains away the damaging effect of the figures of the Canadian census. He predicts in the next ten years a decade of unexampled progress. Vernon Lee writes of Vivarelli under the title of "An Eighteenth Century Singer." Mr. Hugues le Roux writes curiously of Phases of Crime in Paris." The most important paper in the number is Mr. F. Buxton's exposure of the scandals of British administration in West Africa.

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THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.

I HAVE noticed elsewhere Mrs. Sutherland Orr's defence of her rendering of the religious opinions of Robert Browning, and Sir Edwin Arnold's poem, “The 'No' Dance."

THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL MARBOT.

Mr. Shaw-Lef. re is developing faculty fo writing interesting magazine articles which none of his friends suspected. His paper on "The Memoirs of General Marbot" is very well done indeed and full of interest; in fact it is the most interesting historical paper in the reviews this month.

General Marbot was an officer whose name scarcely appears in any history of the time, but who served with great distinction in the Grande Armée of Napoleon from 1799 to the fall of the Empire. He acted as aide-de-camp_successively to five Marshals-Bernadotte, Augereau, Murat, Lannes, and Massena and had the singular good fortune to be present and to escape, not without many wounds, but with his life, from nearly all the great historic battles of the period. He served in the campaigns of Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram, Portugal, Moscow, Leipsic, and Waterloo.

It is upon his Memoirs, which have just been published in three volumes by his descendant, that Mr. ShawLefevre writes his article in the Contemporary. No doubt he owes a good deal to the interesting nature of his subject-matter, but there is many a dull man that writes a dull article on a very interesting book. I have only room for one extract, in which Marbot gives us his share or rather his mare's share- in the battle of Eylau.

In the mélée which ensued I received a bayonet wound in the arm. Another blow was aimed at me by a Russian soldier, but in his drunkenness he lost his balance, and his bayonet struck the hind-quarters of Lisette, the mare, which, mad with pain, reverted to her ferocious instincts; she rushed on the Russian, seized him by the face, and with her teeth tore away his nose, lips, eyelids, and all the skin, and left him a most terrible spectacle-une tête de mort vivante toute rouge. Then rushing furiously in the midst of the combatants, Lisette threw herself against every one she met in her way. A Russian officer having laid hold of her bridle, she seized him by the belly, and lifting him with ease, she carried him beyond the mêlée to the foot of the hill, where she trampled on his body, and left him dying on the snow. Then, renewing her course by the road she had come, she galloped at full speed to the cemetery. Thanks to the hussar saddle on which I was seated, I maintained myself on the mare.

IN DEFENCE OF THE AUSTRALIANS.

Sir Edward Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, takes up the cudgels for the Antipodeans against Mr. Christie Murray. He certainly does not spare his condemnation.

He has affronted the more sensitive by an unwarrantable depreciation of the national morality; he has irritated the more robust by exaggerated praise, which he has laid on with the flat brush of the bill-sticker rather than the pencil of the artist.

Sir Edward takes up in turn each of the four charges brought against the Australians - first, turbulence; secondly, lax commercial morality; thirdly, drankenness; and, fourthly, crimes of violence. On the first he has nothing particular to say. On the second he points out that most of the bankruptcies paraded by Mr. Christie Murray were those of artisans and labourers.

In Australia nearly everybody is worth proceeding against for recovery of debt. In the United Kingdom there are millions who can never swell the insolvent list because they

cannot struggle into the preliminary position of solvency. Is it possible to conceive a British charwoman insolvent by law?

As to drunkenness, he turns the tables very neatly by proving that when the intoxicants consumed in Australia and the United Kingdom are reduced to their equivalent in alcohol, each inhabitant of the United Kingdom consumes four gallons per annum as against an average from 3.80 gallons in Victoria, to 2:17 gallons in Tasmania. As to the alleged growth of Australian hatred against the mother-country, Sir Edward Braddon replies by asserting the exact opposite. He maintains that love of England exists among the people as a whole, and that it only needs some crisis to call it forth and prove it. This may

be, and we all hope that it is true, but the fact that it is so is hardly demonstrated by the reception accorded to General Booth, although, as he says, the General received an ovation in Australasia such as might have gladdened the heart of a triumphant Cæsar. At present we are glad to be told that there is the most complete harmony between Australasia and the Colonial Office. As long as that harmony continues no doubt everything will be smooth; but what would Sir Edward Braddon give for the loyalty of the Australasians if the Colonial Office ventured to insist upon having its own way-just for once?

M. DE LAVELEYE'S NEW BOOK.

Mr. Dunckley, in an expository article, sets forth the kind of book which M. de Laveleye has given us on Democratic Government. He says:

The great merit of the book is that it raises for discussion and puts in a clear light many important questions upon which it behoves ns to make up our minds, and suggests some problems which, though at present we see them not, lie in the path before us, and will have to be confronted.

Modern democracy, says M. de Laveleye, is biblical and Christian in its origin. The early Christian churches were so many little republics. When the Americans revolted they simply transferred to the State the ideal already adopted in the government of the churches. Even the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" of the French nation was merely puritanical Christianity applied to politics. M. de Laveleye is very strongly in favour of a Second Chamber, but a Second Chamber which, like the Senate in America, springs from the popular vote. He denounces the evils of government by party, and discusses the American system of legislation and the Swiss Referendum. Mr. Dunckley's paper is more remarkable for its solidity than its brilliancy.

WANTED, A DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR.

Mr. Robert Donald, one of the most industrious of modern journalists, has an inexhaustible wallet in which is stored the information gathered by him during his brief visit to the United States. This month he produces the facts and figures in connection with the Labour Statistical Department which exists in the United States, advancing his plea for the establishment of a Department of Labour in connection with the Imperial Government:

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What is required after the centralisation of the work of statistical research is the expansion of our Labour Department, in order to make it able to cope with the questions waiting solution, and to sift out the truth in a way which be utilised by social and political reformers. requires first to be armed with authority to enforce demands for information. The Department should have the power and the means to make personal investigations. Once the right methods are adopted, the Department should explain and analyse the results of its inquiries in an intelligent way. It

should endeavour to popularise labour statistics as the Labour Bureaux have succeeded in doing in America.

ARCHBISHOP TAIT.

Mr. George W. Russell has been upset by the extravagance of the eulogies pronounced upon Archbishop Tait, so in his paper he considers the other side of the shield, and sets forth with the utmost candour his objections to the Erastianism of a prelate whose counsel to the Church at every crisis was to accept the mess of pottage and surrender the birthright of the Bride of Christ. In telling the story of the Public Worship Regulation Bill, Mr. Russell says:

It has never been a foible of the Anglican episcopate to bear itself with too high a front in the face of secular opinion; but it has made up for this rather excessive modesty by as much peremptoriness towards the inferior clergy as the law permitted.

He admits that Archbishop Tait was a Parliamentary manager of tact and experience, but what did he do, he asks, to guide the public conscience aright in great crises of public controversy ?

He sat in the House of Lords for five-and-twenty years, and took a leading part in its business. In purely ecclesiastical matters his influence, whether for good or evil, was constantly and effectively exercised; but his biographers do not, I think, mention a single spiritual or moral cause which gained the slightest assistance from the fact that the Chief Pastor of 'ne Church of England was also a Peer of Parliament.

What is the use of Bishops in the House of Lords?

THE BOOK OF THE LAW.

Principal Cave replies to Canon Driver upon the Pentateuch in an article which is too technical for me to do more than merely quote his concluding observations :—

Instead of testing the soundness of their foundations, the advanced critics have gone on building their superstructure. The great need of the time is a careful and logical and calm survey of both sides of this perplexed question. Hengstenburg and Keil have undoubtedly put constructions upon many passages of Scripture they will not bear, and have marshalled arguments too much with the skill of the practical advocate; on the other hand, it is equally certain that Graf, Kuenen, Wellhausen, and Driver have displayed a very large endowment of the same forensic ability. If some practised judge say, skilled in the weighing of evidence, would survey the entire fleld from Astruc to Driver, rejecting assertions which are merely captious, and giving its just weight to every genuine argument, he would render a most

eminent service.

OTHER ARTICLES.

M. Gabriel Monod writes upon French Politics, and Mr. Andrew Lang describes the "Mimes of Herondas." He says:

The Mimes are the work of a literary and modern age, so to speak of the Alexandrian age; they are the toys of an advanced society. They answer to Pompeian wall paintings, in art; they have not the seriousness nor the charm of the best Greek periods.

General Boulanger.-The Revue Encyclopédique of November 1st contains a very interesting sketch of General Boulanger, including a sort of tabular classification, by John Grand-Carterel, of the various ways in which his name was made use of for advertising and political purposes, as well as a list of the chief Boulanger souvenirs. Then there are the innumerable Boulanger songs, for and against, the title-pages of which have been arranged as very effective picture, entitled "Bibliography of General Boulanger-the Songs, 1886-1890." The article is well illustrated.

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THE NEW REVIEW.

MR. ARCHIBALD GROVE is about to make another change. He began at sixpence. Last January he raised his price to ninepence, and now he announces that next month the New Review will cost one shilling. The last nine penny number is not very remarkable. It contains the conclusion of Mr. Carlyle's Excursion to Paris, 1851. Next year Mr. Grove promises an unpublished novel by Mr. Carlyle.

THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

Lord Monkswell defends, with justifiable warmth, the London County Council from the attacks and depreciatory sneers of the Conservative press, especially in relation to the vote on the purchase of tramways. He says justly:

To take part in the municipal government of London is no light task, and should not be lightly undertaken. Those who undertake the task and give up their whole life to it, as I know some of my colleagues do, deserve the utmost sympathy and encouragement. The Conservative Press, while deploring the dearth of ability in the Council, of the working of which they know nothing, is doing its best to make the position of Councillor intolerable, and to stir up class animosities which are now fortunately dormant. Instead of working pure mischief with a light heart, it would be much better if the leaders and scribes of the Constitutional party, as they like to hear it called, would make a serious study of that remarkable assembly which they affect to despise-an assembly that is the most perfect reflex of modern democratic sentiment that has yet been produced.

THE RUSSIAN MONKS OF MOUNT ATHOS.

The most interesting article in the number is Mr. Curzon's "Monasteries of the Levant Revisited." The Russian Monastery, Russicon, at Mount Athos, seems to be a very notable monastery indeed. Mr. Curzon

says:

As we drew near the precincts we passed through what was no more or less than a busy Russian village agog with industry and work. Immense stacks of timber were stored in warehouses, heaps of iron girders and even iron rails littered the ground, several forges were radiating a white heat, and scores of workmen, who looked as little like monks as a private of the Salvation Army looks like a Grenadier, were engaged in manifold forms of toil. There were said already to be in the monastery eight hundred monks, and one hundred probationers, with three hundred attendants in addition, making a total of twelve hundred men in the establishment. And yet the total has probably by now been greatly increased, if the immense building on the shore, six stories high, and capable of accommodating several hundred persons, the floors of which were just being put in, was designed for further inmates. In the vaults below the monastery there are reported to be concealed large stores of rifles and amm unition. A great many of the monks whom I saw looked far better suited to shoulder a musket than to wear the cowl. and the entire establishment bore the appearance, not of a retreat of piousminded persons fleeing from the temptations of a wicked world, but of an enterprising colony bent upon increasing its territories and providing itself with stores, depots, and all the necessary furniture of temporal aggrandisement. A ship was even being built in the small harbour, where also a steamboat was lying.

A STUDY ON MENTAL STATISTICS.

Dr. Jastrow recently set his classes of 25 men and 25 women to write out, as rapidly as possible, the 100 words which first came into their mind. He analyses the result in an interesting paper, from which we learn that of the 5,000 words written by 50 students, Book headed the list

THE PROVIDENT SIDE OF TRADE UNIONS.

Mr. George Howell describes, with detail of statistics nd the fulness of knowledge, how trade unions encourage thrift. He says:

Viewed, therefore, from every standpoint, the provident benefits of trade unions confer estimable advantages upon the members, economically, in their industrial relations; socially, as regards the home, the man, and the family, the latter being no longer dependent upon the doles of charity when reverses come; nor is the bread-winner compelled to accept less than the current rate of wages in his trade. Selfreliance and self-respect are inculcated, thrift is promoted, prudence is encouraged, and industry is ensured by the constant watchfulness of the members for each other's welfare, vacancies for efficient workmen being secured for those in the society who may be out of work.

OTHER ARTICLES.

Miss Helen Zimmern describes "The Palimpsests of Prison," from Lombroso's account of the writings of prisoners. What a craving the human being has for expression! These scrawls with a tack on mugs or tins shed a lurid light upon the pent-up bitterness and savagery of the jail. The other articles are— e-Mr. H. D. Traill on "The Literary Drama," and Vernon Lee's "Of Writers and Readers."

Fiction and Poetry in Connection with Art.-In its programme for 1892, the Art Journal promises several new features, but the most interesting innovation will be that of Fiction and Poetry in Connection with Art. As an experiment, stories connected with Art, written by authors, and illustrated by artists of repute, will be introduced, while the poetry will be confined to original sonnets and short pieces which lend themselves to ilustration. Another notable feature will be descriptions of the Art museums of the country and their contents, by Mr. H. M. Cundall of the South Kensington Museum. Coloured illustrations will not be substituted for etchings, except on rare occasions when an occasional subject presents itself, or when a single coloured picture is considered necessary by way of variety. As the December number completes the present volume, an index to its contents is added. The indexer, it may be remarked, must have been anxious to bring an entry under Z, and consequently "The Alps of New Zealand" appears in the following striking manner: "Zealand, the Alps of New, 172." The article is also entered under "Alps," and "New Zealand"; while "The Sounds of New Zealand" falls under "Sounds" and "New Zealand" only.

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THE FORUM.

THE Forum for November is somewhat dry.

MR. GLADSTONE AND LORD SALISBURY.

It opens with two long articles, by Mr. Freeman and Mr. Thayer, on the Politics and the Armies of Europe. Mr. Freeman writes, as he is wont, vigorously and well, pleading the cause of his beloved protégés in South Eastern Europe, and ending up with a very characteristic dig at the Prime Minister :

There is at this moment one living man among English statesmen who can say that he found some thousands of European and Christian people just set free from the barbarian yoke, that he helped to thrust them back again under the yoke, and then boasted of what he had done. Go by the banks of the Vardar, and you will hear his name as Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, betrayer of Macedonia.

There is also one living man among English statesmen who can say that he found some thousands of European and Christian people, to whom Europe had promised freedom, with the barbarian yoke still about their necks, and that he, unaided, against all opposition, broke the yoke from off their necks. Go by the banks of Pencios, and you will hear his name as William Ewart Gladstone, deliverer of Thessaly. Let the English folk in all lands think whether of the twain is the more worthy to be the leader of one great part of the English folk, if another hour of trial should come.

Mr. W. R. Thayer discourses upon European armaments and the political situation from the point of view of one who is attacked by Russophobia:

It may yet happen that Frenchmen and Germans, sinking their lesser quarrels in the presence of a common danger, fight side by side against Cossack invaders.

Racial ambition, therefore, is one strong cause of Russia's belligerence, and it is a cause that seems likely to increase rather than to disappear. Add to this the dynastic necessities of the Tzar, the unreasoning obedience of the masses, and the fact that, whereas Russian territory has little attractiveness for western Europeans, western Europe would be rich spoil for scant-fed Muscovites, and we see how it is that St. Petersburg is the permanent storm-centre of Europe.

THE GROWTH OF LARGE HOLDINGS IN AMERICA.

In the course of an article, which is a plea for a more systematic and careful construction of public roads and their maintenance for the benefit of the farmer, Mr. Isaac B. Potter gives some interesting figures as to the diminution of agricultural values in the States, and the gradual growth of large holdings :

The list of abandoned farms in many States is growing to such length as to excite public comment and invite official inquiry. A few days ago Governor Campbell, of Ohio, in a public address to the farmers at Marysville, declared that the farms of that State had decreased in market value by at least 220,000,000 dols. in the last ten years, although the official census reports record an increase of double that sum in municipal values during the decade-1870-1880-of farms under 50 acres, while those having between 50 and 100 acres have increased in only about thirty-seven per cent. Going into the larger acreage, we find that the increase of farms having between 100 and 500 acres has been about threefold; those between 500 and 1,000 acres have increased fourfold; and those having over 1,000 acres were eight times more in 1880 than 1870. In 1883 over eighteen millions of acres were held by eight proprietors, while the great railway companies owned two hundred millions of acres.

REFORM IN AMERICAN POLITICS.

Mr. Herbert Welsh, in an article describing the degra dation of Pennsylvanian politics, gives the first place in his suggestions to this proposition

Questions of fundamental public morality, involving the public character of public men, and methods of administration, are vital, and should take precedence of all questionsof party policy in which moral principles are not involved, or concerning which men may with perfect good faith hold opposite opinions.

Mr. Quincy describes the legislation which has been enforced for the regulation of lobbying in Massachusetts. legislature, and Senator Morgan warns the Farmers' Alliance against the danger of allowing themselves to be used as a cats-paw by the currency faddists.

THE FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

Mr. Merry prophesies that not only "westward the star of empire takes its way” but that the star of trade also moves towards the Occident. The Nicaragua Canal is going to regenerate the Pacific slope. Mr. Merry

Mr. C. H. Cramp pleads vigorously for the passing of tonnage law which would enable the American shi builder once more to keep the American flag in eviden before the nations of the world. He says:

All we need is the assurance of a steady national policy liberal and enlightened encouragement, based upon patriotic common consent, and elevated above the turm of politics, or the squabbles of parties. One decade of s a policy would make us second only to Great Britain on high seas, either for commerce or for defence; and decades of it would bring us fairly into the twentieth tury as the master maritime power of the globe.

UNIVERSITY LIFE FOR WOMEN.

Miss Clough, Principal of Newnham, gives a very teresting account of University life for women in Eng which I should have been glad to have quoted fro greater length. I have only room, however, for suggestion:

In a separate college for women, music might be studied, also drawing and designing, and other tec works, perhaps the making of jewellery and watche embroidery, the painting of glass, and gardening. Tea on some of these subjects might be got from the tec schools of Paris, of London, and of Germany. By this something might be done to make new openings f activities of women. We want new modes of life, f educational line is very much filled up. Still, we always endeavour to keep up the intercourse betwee and women in their work.