THE, QUARTERLY REVIEW
PERHAPS the most interesting article in the Quarterly is Mr. Bensusan's " Suggestions for Farmers." In his belief, in spite of the present distaste of the labouring population for agriculture' we may still be on the eve of an Agricultural Renaissance. The new " crop-drying machinery " if it comes into general use will, he -declares, "eliminate bad Mr- - vests." If " the wind-motor " can be perfected the amount of men and-horses necessary to the 'working of a large farm will be incredibly decreased. Even with the machinery now in use " a leading farmer told me that he had reduced his horses from 70 to 6," his team of tractors being in the keeping of a trained man. If farmers could be brought to realize the necessity of destroying rats and weeds, and could see that their profits need not be dependent on weather, or on what is now considered a sufficiency of labour, English agriculture might, in his eyes, be saved. Mr. R. B. Mowat defends " The,Pleasant- ness of , European Life,'.' eagerly controverting the notion . that a new happiness distinguishes the new world and that men breathe freely only when " The wretchedness of Europe is left behind." " The Truth About Macpherson's Ossian ' " revives a time-honoured controversy in a manner to interest the plain man, Mr. G. M. Fraser coming to the orthodox conclusion that Macpherson was a brilliant deceiver. Under the heading " The Apostles of Rome " Professor H. Stuart Jones discusses the question of St. Peter's sojourn in Rome. A crowd of learned critics deny that he was ever there. Mr.
• Stuart Jones argues that there are " no cogent reasons. for the assertion that the Christian Community in Rome was wrong in revering as its founders Peter of Galilee and Paul of Tarsus."
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