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(Continued from page 1(:3.) A graceful tribute is fittingly paid to the late Sir John -Murray in the January number of the Quarterly Review, in which, as publisher for many years and latterly as editor, he had taken. a-close -personal interest. His son and successor, .Colonel John Murray, contributes the opening article on -" Two Empresses "—the Empress Frederick and the late Tsaritsa. Dr. A. A. W. Ramsay, under the heading of " A -Socialist Fantasy," subjects Mr. and Mrs. Hammond's book on " The Town Labourer " to searching criticism and charges the authors with misquoting and misinterpreting their authorities so as to cast undeserved odium on the Government, the magistrates and the employers in the Industrial Revolution. Mr. L. E. Neame's account of " The Poor Whites of South Africa " is grave reading : these debased Europeans who will not work are a menace to a community in which the blacks outnumber the whites by five to one. Sir Verney Lovett and Mr. C. F. Strickland discuss education and agriculture in India, and Mr. J. H. Morgan commences an interesting character study of Lord Haldane.
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