The new Quarterly Review opens with en instructive article by
Sir Frederick Pollock on " Imperial Unity : the Practical Con- ditions," summing up in favour of an Imperial Cabinet with Dominion representatives and an Imperial Council or Senate of not more than a hundred members, which would sit in the intervals between the Imperial Conferences and keep Whitehall in close touch with the Dominions. The Dean of St. Paul's answers " The Indict- ment against Christianity." He points out incidentally the error of assuming " that militarism and cupidity are vices of the privileged classes, and that democracies may be trusted neither to plunder the minority at home nor to seek foreign adventures by unjust wars," and remarks that " the methods of trade-unions are the methods of pitiless belligerency." Mr. Robinson Smith's remarkable article on " Efficiency," describing the results achieved by Mr. Winslow Taylor's methods of " scientific management " in Anierica, points out a new road to increased production with benefit to all parties concerned. Thus " the art of laying a brick was reduced from eighteen movements to five, and the capacity of skilful workmen raised from one hundred and twenty bricks per man per hour to three hundred and fifty, attended, of course, by a very considerable increase of pay." Sir R. H. Inglis Palgrave discusses the work of assisting British trade that may be done by the British Trade Corporation and similar institutions. Mr. John Hilton has a practical article on " Public Kitchens," which will, he thinks, serve a useful purpose after the war as well as in war time. The sinister relations between " Sinn Fein and Germany " before the war are plainly described by " Vigilant," whose revelations will surprise many good-natured English people. As early as 1905, the Sinn Feiners were trying to discourage enlistments. In 1913 they circulated a leaflet saying : " The English live in daily terror of Germany. War between Germany and England is at hand." Casement was active with his pen in this agitation in 1911, the very year in which he was knighted ! General von Bernhardi, at Case- ment's request, translated for a Berlin paper an article in which Casement indicated the intention of Sinn Fein to side with Germany if she were at war with England. Mr. Bertram Clayton discusses the relations between Sinn Fein and Labour in Ireland, and shows that they are by no means friendly. Let us call attention also to Sir W. M. Ramsay's interesting article on " The Turkish Peasantry of Anatolia," and to Mr. T. M. Murry's admirable account of that able young French poet and prose-writer, the late Charles Pdguy.
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