PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN CLUB, TORONTO.
Proceedings of the Canadian Club, Toronto, 1907-8. (Warwick Brothers and Rutter, Toronto.)—The Canadian Club, now in its twelfth year, welcomes many guests. Mr. Kok Hardie ad- dresses it on Socialism and its aim, Mr. Rudyard Kipling on "Problems of Empire "—he was received, we are glad to see, with enthusiasm—Mr. Warman on "The Protection of the Wild and the Things of the Wild"—bidding its members draw a salutary lesson from what has happened in the States—and Mr. W. Jennings Bryan (lately Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency) on ideals. Then seine specially Canadian questions are treated. The head of the Ontario Agricultural College dis- courses on agriculture as a profession, Dr. Fennow on "Forest Policy for Canada," and Mr. Lewis on "Pulpwood," a branch, it may be said, of the forest question. Pulp means paper, and Mr. Lewis is for imposing an export-duty on it, which would result, he thinks, in creating a home paper manufacture. For a time, we imagine, paper would be both bad and dear; and dear, the export- duty on the raw material being backed up by an import-duty on the manufactured article, it would remain. Then there is a dis- cussion on the "Power Bye-law," a subject to be paralleled by our own differences on electrical matters. The club appears to be prosporoue. It had in 1907-8 1,403 paying members as against 1,179 in the year preceding, with 441 applications for membership as against 250. It is interesting to see the "attendances." Mr. Bryan and Mr. Radyard Kipling divide the first honours with 800 each, the Bishop of London comes next with 700, a number which Mr. Keir Hardie exactly halves.
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