THE MAY REVIEWS
Sir Charles Hobhouse, writing in the Contemporary on " Protection and the Budget," admits that the electors have decided to give a fair trial to a moderate tariff. He then pro- ceeds to show why, in his view, a tariff must make things worse rather than better, and why the Ottawa Conference is likely to be disappointing. Lord. Olivier, in " A Glimpse of Justice in Africa," welcomes the promised Commission on land tenure in Kenya. Among many political articles Mr. H. J. Massingham's " Adventures among Villages "—in the less known parts of the Cotswolds—is a pleasant relief.
In the Fortnightly Mr. G. K. Chestetton debates " The Virtues of Revolution "with special reference to the Americans who, he thinks, suffer from undue post-revolutionary imitation of England and Europe. Mr. Hugh A. Law, a former National- ist Member, and now a member of the Dail, writes temperately but far from hopefully on " Ireland and the Commonwealth." Mr. William McFee, from his experience as a marine engineer, describes the perils of the oil tanker in " Oil and the Hairy 'Ape," while Mr. Geoffrey Tillotson laments the hard fate of
The Modern Undergraduate," oppressed by too many socie- ties and the examination system.
Blachwood's has an interesting article by Sir John Fortescue on " Navy and Army "—the combined operations that, when rightly managed, have been most effective, but that have far more often failed through imperfect understanding.
• " Shalimar " has an excellent story of a wool clipper sailing through a narrow lane in an ice-field ; and a woman candidate describes her experiences in a Labour stronghold last autumn.
The question of " Tariff Bargaining " is discussed in a prac- tical way by Mr. Owen Jones in the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Jones shows that the question is a very awkward one, and that it involves not merely the negotiation of a whole series of new commercial treaties, but also a four-fold tariff with a wide range of duties, to say nothing of the difficulties that will arise in the interval before these arrangements are completed. 'Dr. Cloudesley Brereton, Writing from the standpoint of a Norfolk farmer, discusses " Farming Ills and Compulsory Marketing," and declares that his hard-pressed friends are now prepared for some such measures. Herr Paul Cohen- Fortheim contributes an amusing and instructive article, entitled " Come to Britain ? " He declares that very lets foreigners come here because they hear from the many English travellers abroad that England is dull. With this verdict he does not agree, but he thinks that we might extend a more friendly welcome to the Continental visitor.
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