The Study of Newfoundland. By F. E. Smith. (Horace Marshall
and Son. Is. 6d.)—The story which Mr. Smith has to tell is not one of unmixed prosperity. There are countries where the evils of misgovernment are easily redressed, where Nature is so bountiful that things right themselves almost without effort. Newfoundland is not one of these. Accordingly it has passed through crises more dangerous than have happened to any other Colony, Jamaica, perhaps, excepted. And then it is confronted with a. perennial difficulty in the "French Shore" question. Mr. Smith takes a very strong view on this point. That there must be a quid pro quo is manifest. Who is to find the quid ? Either the Mother Country, or some other Colony (as, for instance, Australia, if a compensation were given to France in the Pacific), or Newfoundland itself. Bat "Non nostrum tantas componere Rtes."
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