There is plenty of shrewd sense, and perhaps a superabundance
of good epigram, in Mr. Price Collier's "Home Life : English and American," which is one of the most readable papers of an excel- lent number of the Forum. It starts with the doctrine that "in England the domestic establishment is carried on with a prime view to the comfort of the man ; in America the establishment is carried on with a prime view to the comfort of the woman." "Business," it seems, is everything on the other side of the Atlantic ; whereas here, and in spite of intense competition, it is varied with recreations and hobbies. These are, however, all meant to make men, including public men, more "fit" for this life of strenuosity. The paper is an interesting one, although the theory in it is perhaps pushed too far. "Is Faith in a Future Life Declining ? " is the title of a rather disappointing, because ultra-sentimental, paper by the author of "Gates Ajar." "The Stability of the House of Lords," by a writer whose name, "J Castell Hopkins," is new to us, is perhaps the only other article of a strictly non-American character in the Forum that is deserving of notice ; it is readable, but rather slight. "A Year of Democratic Administration," and the question of State aid, have two and three papers respectively devoted to them.
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