The Magazines
AmoNn other excellent papers in a very good number of the Fortnightly we would point to a spirited and romantic article on " Primo de Rivera and the New Spain," by Mr.
Dudley Heathcote. " The general's new experimental dictatorship has," he feels sure, " come to stay." The "com- manding personality " of this man of genius is made to stand out before the reader, " a mediaevalist in the profundity of his patriotic faith " he is capable, Mr. Ileathcote believes, of restoring the former greatness of Spain, " so steady and so vital has been the transformation" which she has "undergone at his hands." " The Tercentenary of Edward Alleyn," by Mr. Bailey Kempling should interest all " old boys " of Dulwich College. Of the literary articles Mr. Stephen Gwynn's " An Elizabethan Novelist and a French Critic " is specially pleasant.
The Duke of Northumberland in the National Review writes of " The Betrayal of the Working Man." The Con- servative Party and the Church of England have, we read, egregiously failed in their duty—what, he asks, must the average working man think when he hears of such a man as Mr. Cook " being closeted day after day with the Prime Minister in the intervals between speeches in which he declares that statesman to be a liar and a murderer." The Church maintains what seems to him the same weak attitude. Is it to be wondered at, he asks, that " seeing all this weakness, sophistry, humbug, and concealment of the truth, the working man continues to put his faith in political trades unionism as his only refuge ?" The truth is, the Duke continues, "that the reform of the trade unions if it is to be worth anything, must be undertaken in the spirit of a crusade against a system which is an utter abomination and a national peril."
Mr. S. Maccoby's paper upon " President Coolidge " in the Contemporary makes excellent reading. He has drawn a most interesting portrait, whatever its merits as a likeness.
Miss Edith Sellers gives us the impressions of an English- woman wandering in Italy " among Fascismo's friends and foes." The increase of prosperity and of order fill her at first with admiration, but an under-murmur of discontent is, she thinks, never quite out of hearing, and she is alarmed at the warlike tone of the young men. " The French Salon and Anatole France " is an entertaining account of literary society in Paris to-day.
Blackwood contains, with other good things, a charming paper describing the life of a midshipman at the beginning of the last century. It is called " The Perilous Adventures and Vicissitudes of a Naval Officer one Hundred Years Ago." A note informs the reader that the midshipman who died in 1876, aged 89, was said to be the original of Peter Simple.
In the English Review Prof. Charles Sarolea puts the case against Free Trade under the title " The Economic Crisis in
Great Britain." Mr. Wade Chance writes of " Henry Ford—
Industrial Philosopher," quoting many epigrams. Here is a typical saying of Mr. Ford in favour of a short working day : " Leisure hours are full of wants, which business hours must supply." In " Pictures Unsold and Songs Unsung," Mr. George Lynch quotes some statistics which will make sad reading for artists. " Over 12,000 pictures were offered at this year's academy, 1,445 pictures and statues were exhibited and only 235 were sold."
The World To-day is as full as ever of spirit and enter- tainment. " Does Democracy Breed Genius?" by Mr. Albert lidward Wiggam, marshalls the evidence in favour of aristo- cratic brains. In " Does Mussolini Mean War ? " Mr. Frederick Palmer answers his own question in the affirmative. " South America's Vanishing Indians," by Mr. Francis Gow Smith, describes and depicts the half-savage but very human Mororos as they are—but will soon cease to be.
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