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 Review of Miscellaneous Articles Urging Great Britain's need of departing from the harmful policy of supporting a navy equal to the combined fleets of Germany and the United States. Foreign Relations. "An After-Glance at the Visit of the American Fleet to Australia." By Rt. Hon. George Houston Reid. 189 North American Review 404 (Mar.). Foreign Relations. "An American Concert of the Powers." By Professor Theodore S. Woolsey. Scribner's, v. 45, p. 364 (Mar.). Reviewing the facts of Mr. Root's missions in Mexico and South America, the author asks, "Is it too much to say that a Concert of Powers in America is actually in process of formation; that its influence in keeping the peace has already been exercised, and that the machinery for its working already exists?" Foreign Relations. "Should the Govern ment Own its Embassies?" By Horace Porter. Century, v. 77, p. 782 (Mar.). Germany. "Germany in Transition." By Anglo-American. 189 North American Re view 360 (Mar.). "The trend of the German mind is unques tionably in the direction of giving the people an increasingly effective control over national and Imperial policy, and of modifying the present system of one-man power, if not by direct enactment, then by one of those tacit compromises and informal understandings that regulate the workings of British Consti tutionalism. Some day the issue between Crown and People will be definitely joined. So far it has been merely broached. But that it should be raised at all is, perhaps, the most interesting fact about Germany in transition." India. "The Reform Proposals: A Sympo sium." Indian Review (Madras), v. 10, p. 3 Jan.). The second instalment of a collection of opinions with regard to the reforms promul gated by Lord Morley, Minister for India. A typical view is that of Hon. Ambica Charan Muzumdar, who thinks that if the monu mental scheme of the Marquess of Ripon inaugurated in 1882 had been steadily worked out, the present situation might never have disgraced the Indian public and blotted the Indian administration. "I am free to admit that the scheme is on the whole a satisfactory measure of reform. . . . The monumental scheme of Lord Ripon which Lord Morley has resuscitated after a quarter of a century's neglect and disparagement affords a striking

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illustration of the fact that 'rich gifts often wax poor when givers prove unkind.'" India. "The Tangle in India." By Sir Charles Crosthwaite, K. C. S. I. Blackwood's, v. 185, p. 286 (Feb.). Ireland. "The New Ireland—X." By Sydney Brooks. 189 North American Review 416 (Mar.). Journalism. "Why I Believe in the Kind of American Journalism for which The Outlook Stands." By Theodore Roosevelt. Outlook, v. 91, p. 510 (Mar. 6). In the first of his editorials for The Outlook, Mr. Roosevelt answers the question in his title as follows:— "During the last few years it has become lamentably evident that certain daily news papers, certain periodicals, are owned or con trolled by men of vast wealth who have gained their wealth in evil fashion, who desire to stifle or twist the honest expression of ublic opinion, and who find an instrument t for their purpose in the guided and pur chased mendacity of those who edit and write for such papers and periodicals. This style of sordid evil does not even constitute a temptation to The Outlook; no influence of any kind could make the men who control The Outlook so much as consider the question of abandonment of duty; and they hold as their first duty inflexible adherence to the elementary virtues of entire truth, entire courage, entire honesty." Judges. "A Judicial Experience." By Theo dore Roosevelt. Outlook, v. 91, p. 563 (Mar. 13). Describing how, during his second term in the New York Assembly, Mr. Roosevelt assisted in the passage of a law prohibiting the manufacture of cigars in tenement-houses, a law which was soon declared unconstitu tional by the highest state court, which in voked a technical construction of the Con stitution to invalidate a law demanded in the interest of public morals and public weal. "From that day to this I have felt an ever growing conviction of the need of having on the bench men who, in addition to being learned in the law and upright, shall possess a broad understanding of and sympathy with their countrymen as a whole, so that the questions of humanity and of social justice shall not be considered by them as wholly inferior to the defense of vested rights or the upholding of liberty of contract. A hair splitting refinement in decisions may result in as much damage to the community as if