Canadian Nationality, and other Essays. By W. Frank Hatheway. (W.
Briggs, Toronto.)—Mr. Hatheway addresses to his Canadian countrymen some vigorous allocutions,— possibly we should not altogether please either him or them by quoting his most pungent utterances. Much that ho says is admirable. His appeals to politicians to be patriotic, to men to be chivalrous, to the ordinary citizen to be interested in things that are worth caring about in literature, art, and science, not in prize-fights, are excellent. Sometimes he is a little wild in his illustrations. "Socrates expressed his belief in the one God, and drank the death-giving hemlock rather than recant," is a little odd seeing that the nominal charge against him was impiety. Nor, to take the next sentence, do we find "that the rule of King and noble is gone." It is strange how potent these two forces are. And has "the German 'mailed fist' to submit to the popular vote " ? There is plenty of vigorous eloquence in the essay from which these specimens are quoted. Mr. Hatheway must not suppose that we do not welcome his volume.—Along with this we may mention Problems of Empire, by the Hon. T. A. Brassey (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. 6d. net), of which a popular edition has been published. Both Mr. Hatheway and Mr. Brassey put more faith than seems reasonable to us in the commercial bond of Empire. But there is much in this volume that is well worth consideration.
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