5 JULY 1902, Page 34

The Empire Review, June (Macmillan and Co., is. net) contains

a brief article to which we must give, though somewhat late, a few words of notice. It sets forth a plan for providing the colonists (of the Roman kind, the "soldier-farmer") with whom it is pro- posed to leaven, so to speak, the population of the new South African provinces. We do not feel able to pronounce definitely upon it ; we see, for instance, how the new settlers are to be taught farming; but how are they to be taught soldiering ? Is it intended that they should be chosen from men who have served ? ln any case the article is worth noting.