THE QUARTERLY REVIEW
THE first article in the new Quarterly is by Sir Ian Malcolm. He writes of "George Curzon" with intimate knowledge, and the article contains a good deal which will be new even to those who have already read a dozen such appreciations. "I have," he writes, "a document from him written in 1908, in which he outlines the shaping of his destiny up to the day in which he left that country (India) for the last time." From this document he makes long excerpts throwing a vivid light on a great man whose " motives were quite RS high as his ambitions." The lighter side of Sir Ian Malcolm's recollections, witticisms, practical jokes; &c., stand in odd contrast to the very noble piece of self-portraiture with which his quotations from Lord Curzon's own writing present us. In "The Next Naval Conference," Captain E. Altham deprecates all attempts to "abolish the present predominant fleet unit, the battleship," believing that to do so would "undo the good of the Washington Treaty," tend to "create general mistrust" and "a tendency to renewed competition on naval armaments." Sir William Beach Thomas writes of "Where Empire Settlement Fails." A number of our skilled men are at present slowly filtering away, he laments. "Too few appreciably to reduce the population," they are yet" numerous enough to reduce the national efficiency." He desires to see organized emigration on a large scale, and makes suggestions for its accomplishment. The Trades Union Report on Russia is analysed by Sir Bernard Pares. Sir Bernard's report on the Report is unfavourable, that is, he regards those chiefly responsible for it as insufficiently qualified investigators easily deceived. Several of the literary articles in this number are interesting, though in looking through the index a would-be
reader might turn from their subjects as somewhat worn. The Rev. W. K. Fleming writes "Some Truths about John luglesant," Mr. Walter Starkie writes on Richard Wagner and the Music Drama, and the Rev. T. H. Weir, D.D., on Omar Khayyam.
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