The Magazines
THE Nineteenth Century leads off with an article on " Mosul Oil and the Pipe-line, by Sir Henry Dobbs. The subject is handled with great detail and precision, and should serve as an object lesson tq those who believe that international politics are now entirely altruistic. Even more interesting IS an article by Madame Odette Keun, " A Foreigner Looks at the British Sudan." It will throw an entirely new light to most English people upon some of the problems of Colonial
administration. The New Protectionists," by .1. A. Holism, is very valuable as a more or less detailed and quite adequate refutation of the various planks in their various platforms. Two other very interesting articles are the second part of Dr. F. C. S. Schiller's article " Eugenical Reform-11. The Democracy," and an article on " History and Mr. Wells," by R. B. McCallum.
In the Contemporary Review the " Parliamentary Retro- spect," by F. Kingsley Griffiths, is a survey of the bud Labour record for the past year. Sir Theodore Morison writes interestingly on the Simon Report, but in a tone which is not likely to reconcile it with Indian ideas. Perhaps the most interesting articles are a sketch of General Carman', the Portuguese Dictator, by William Leon Smyser, and an article describing some conversations with Georg Brandt: in. 1913, by G. C. Moore Smith, 1.itt.D. The biographical sketch of Toyohiko Kagawa, by E. Hales is also illuminating. The Fortnightly has two interesting articles on the present psychology of this country, "The Spirit of the Age," by G. K. Chesterton, concerned, of course, mainly with the literary manifestations of this psychology, and " England Adrift," by John Hallett, concerned mainly with the economic depression. The difference in outlook is interesting. Mr. Chesterton's is, of course, in principle, a comparison of to-day with the nineteenth century to the advantage of the latter, while Mr. Hallett, though aware of all the defects mentioned by Mr. Chesterton, is nevertheless looking hopefully to the future. There is also a short biography of Lewis Carroll, by Walter de la Mare, which needs no recommendation, and a picturesque though limited description of a journey across the Sahara, by Mrs. Patrick Ness. Miss Dorothy Johnson's sketch " The Puppet Show," is talented, if not ambitious.
Blackwood's has a good all round number with perhaps nothing very outstanding in it, except perhaps " Down North," by L. Luard—a description of work with the present day trawler fleet. Mr. R. S. Garnett also continues his book-hunting adventures.
We have received the first number of a new periodical to be published monthly in America, known, as the International Digest. It will contain in abridged form a number of articles froMperiodicals all over the world which its editors consider to be of outstanding interest in international affairs. It should be of -great interest to all those interested in international affairs who have not time to search for and digest these articles for themselves, and we must congratulate the publishers upon a very interesting and courageous venture. The subscription price is three dollars in the United States, and 50 cents. extra elsewhere, payable to The International Digest, Inc., Forest Hills, New York City, U.S.A.
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