The new number of the Economic Review is chiefly notable
and valuable for its containing quite a host of papers dealing with questions of present-day interest, such as "Newfoundland in Revolt," "Women's Work," "The Origin of Trade-Unionism," and "Old-Age Pensions by Means of Municipal Dwellings." How very present-day these papers are may be gathered from the fact that Mr. C. G. Robertson, who discusses the question of 4, Women's Work" in a spirit of great earnestness, and admits that the salvation of the female worker lies in her own hands, states it as his "deliberate and emphatic conviction" that "the enfranchisement of women is desirable for economic and social reasons." The writer of the unsigned contribution on Newfoundland comes to the conclusion that for bettering her condition, that Colony must look to the introduction of foreign capital for the efficient working of her valuable mines, lumbering, and paper-pulp industries. Among other very read- able articles are the Bishop of Durham's on "The Christian Social Union," which is interesting if not profound ; and the Rev. W. F. Cobb's, entitled "The Fathers on Property." Mr. Cobb demonstrates that the Fathers were not such rank communists as they have been represented to be. They would have been horrified at "ransom," and would have denounced "La propri6t6 c'est le vol ;" and yet there were no mere devotees of /aim!, s-faire.
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