THE CONTEMPORARY.
Dr. Gooch's memoir of Lord Morley is admirably phrased and adds some new touches to the familiar portrait. - He says, for instance, that "in later years Lord Morley frankly con- fessed to an error of judgment" in having championed Lord Rosebery rather than Sir William Harcourt as the successor to Gladstone in 1394. "His reminiscences ranged over the celebrities of two complete generations. He used to say that if he could call back one, and only one, of the com- panions he had lost, he would choose Lord Acton." The very pertinent question, "Will the• German Republic Survive ? "is answered by Professor Kantorowicz,.of Freiburg, in the affirmative, provided always that other nations "are prepared to act by Germany on the basis of true democratic principles.” He recalls the seeming weakness of the Third Republic in France in the days of MacMahon, or of Boillanger, and predicts that the German Republic• also will survive, partly because the Hohenzollerns are discredited and the Wittelsbachs' have no 'admirers outside BaVaria: Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, from the Indian Nationalist standpoint, states "The Problem of India's Aspirations" ; he assumes, of course, that the handful of educated or half-educated Babus represent the 300,000,000 people of various races and religions in the Peninsula. Mr. Arthur Greenwood's paper
on ." Protection and the Wool Textile Industry" is of special interest at the moment : he declares that Protection would injure Bradford by increasing the cost of production which is already too high, and that foreign countries would retaliate upon us if we were to adopt a Tariff. Mr. Archibald Weir writes on "Old Age : Redeemed and Unredeemed," and Mr. Herbert Mace, the well-known entomologist, contributes an excellent essay on "The Significance of Colour," especially in butterflies and plants.
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