THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Lord Long writes on "The Conservative Party," in whose future he firmly believes. He makes an effective reply to Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion that, as Mr. Bonar Law's Ministry polled only a minority of the votes in November last, it is disqualified for holding office. The Liberal Governments following the election of 1892 and the two elections of 1910 were in a similar case. Lord Long admits that he misunder- stood the action of the so-called " Die-Hards," who, as he now sees, "made the reunion of the Conservative Party easy of accomplishment." Mr. Wickham Steed discusses the interminable question of Reparations and Captain Colin Coote that of " Fascismo " in Italy. Two interesting articles on Canada are contributed by Colonel H. Knox-Niven and Mr. J. S. Ewart : the one is a plea for the French-Canadian, the other a protest against Canada's supposed relegation to "the degrading slough of humiliating colonialism "—a com- plaint for which, so far as we know, there is no foundation whatever. Sir Michael Sadler begins a most interesting essay on Matthew Arnold, whom he regards as the Gray of the nineteenth century. Lord Aberdeen incorporates some of his amusing anecdotes in a paper on "The Scottish Vernacular."
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