The Magazines
Sin Jenne Maui:now contributes a very interesting paper to the Nineteenth Century on "The Imperial Parliament and the Empire." Lord Milner, as lately as the summer of 1916, envisaged "a number of communities, individually autonomous, but constituting collectively a single State, speaking with one voice, acting as a unit in international politics "—in short, the apparatus of federalism. It may be only a swing of the pendulum, but we have certainly receded from that position, and it behoves us to take thought for the morrow. Mr. Bernard Darwin writes delightfully., as always, on "Early and Modern Golf." Mr. F., J. P. Veale has a clever article on "Restrictive Legislation," basing his disquisition on Herr Spengler's classification of mankind into the Apollonian man, such as the ancient Greek, to whom life was an interpretation not a battle, and the Faustian man typified by Torquemada, Marx, Wesley, and Mr. " Pussyfoot " Johnson, who are crusaders at heart. - Are our teachers beginning to learn that lessons should be out of doors as far as possible ? This summer it has been difficult, but we see in the lively Crouch End High School Magazine an illustration of bare-armed, bare-footed girls sitting at their desks in the school grounds, imbibing sunlight and fresh air with their instruction. We wish this excellent practice were commoner, in spite of, indeed because of, our bad weather.
The Journal of Careers (61 Conduit Street, is.) is an excellent magazine for parents, full of ideas. We cannot understand how many new openings for a successful career exist in this new world of ours, unless we take the trouble to find out from a magazine such as this. Who would have thought of training their girl as a nursery nurse twenty years ago, or their boy as a colloid chemist ?
That enterprising journal, The Drapers' Organiser, sends us its colour forecast for 1927. Angelica, dove, melon, shagreen, mimosa, and moorland purple are some of the predicted shades ; they sound as pleasant as they look.
Health for A//—the new" Nature Cure "magazine—deserves a mention, for it is not a faddist's paper (unless it be a fad to endeavour to keep healthy by natural means rather than medicine), and there is always something of interest in it, as this saying of Diogenes : "As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are likely to be full of diseases." "Cooking," says Mrs. Lief, "is a crime against the body, and its penalty is disease. Stop stuffing your children with porridge, pud- dings, potatoes, cocoa and cod-liver oil." She gives a short list of good and bad food combinations which would save untold indigestion if we acted on its recommendations.
A very full number of the Empire Review contains interesting articles on Brit& Communism, Chinese Nationalism, and the Cinema censorship. The Socialist -Review publishes a revealing paper--" The Disease of Leftism "—which attacks the " minority-mentality " of many Socialists and points out what all reasonable Englishmen know, whatever their political opinions, that life is founded on a series of compromises. The National Review has a delightful article by Miss Frances Pitt.
Previous page
