THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Professor J. Arthur Thomson, who writes on " The New Biology," always holds the attention ; for him science is romance, and he makes it so for his readers. He is fascinated by the idea of the " linkage of lives," the idea which Darwin was the first to impress upon men's minds :—
" To make a pound of cod requires ten pounds of whelks ; to make a pound of whelks requires ten pounds of sea-worms ; to make a pound of sea-worms requires ten pounds of organic sea- dust. And so the world goes round ! "
Mr. C. K. Allen, in " Bureaucracy Triumphant," states that the liberty of the subject is being steadily undermined by the retention in peace time of emergency War measures. " The Future of India," by an anonymous writer, is a useful review of what the reforms in India mean, of what has so far been done, and of what the Indian extremists claim. The writer regards attempts at self-government in India as inevitable since the equivalent of a sense of nationality was created by several influences that made for cohesion ; chief among these were the British railways, the English language and allegiance to the paramount British Government. The article on " The New Pan-Germanism," by Professor Theodore von Sosnosky, the well-known Austrian, is, we hope, too sensa- tional. He reveals a dangerous revival of Pan-Germanism under new forms, the significance of which has not yet been generally recognized. The writer of " Ireland, Rome and the Republicans " shows how greatly the power of Roman Catholicism has been reduced in Ireland as the result of the neutrality, if not the compliance, displayed towards murder for so many years by the priests. Nemesis has overtaken them.
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