The Magazines
The Nineteenth Century for June seems to contain an unusual number of surveys or summaries of the situation in a given field, with comparatively little attention to any special aspects. Professor Coatman is comprehensive and judicious in his history of the present troubles of India. Mr. Herbert Side- botham writes an epilogue to the Naval Treaty which is not encouraging, and opens up again the problem of the freedom of the seas. Lord Winterton surveys Egypt and the Sudan and comes to the conclusion that nobody in those countries can be trusted to behave with responsibility except ourselves. Mr. Duff Cooper exercises his usual verbal ingenuity in reply to Mrs. Hamilton on the political outlook, and is rather spiteful about the Liberals. Mr. G. F. Hudson is really illuminating about the recent changes in the centre of gravity of Japanese politics. Mr. E. M. Nicholson writes of the new difficulties of exploration, so much harder it must be when the explorer has become an expedition instead of an individual. There is an amusing-article by Mr. R. M. Fox on" Rolling Stones." The real gem is reserved almost for the end, the contribution for which people will preserve this number. There are three unpublished Imaginary Conversations," by Landoi "Andrew Marvell and Henry Marten," " Diogenes and a Citizen," and "Solon and Pisistratos." Our gratitude to Mi. F. M. Ashley-Montague, the contributor, must not go un-. recorded.
The Contemporary is less encyclopaedic. Four articles are pre-eminent. In Gandhi and Tolstoi," Mr. Aylmer Maude, quotes a very interesting letter written by Tolstoi to Gandhi on the subject of his non-co-operation movement in South Africa. Mr. Maude relates the doctrines which they both held to the famous text about turning "the other cheek," and apparently asserts that he has refuted all three. "The Co operative movement and Free Trade," by Mr. Brougham Villiers, is interesting and informative. Free traders should give more attention to this movement, which is a powerful educative influence on their side. "French Journalism," by Mr. Philip Carr, illustrates the evils which may ensue if any more of our critics become authors, in the shape of the decay of criticism, and those which ensue from "star booming" in journalism generally. "Curiosity in Wild Animals," by Mr. G. B. Gooch, is a charmingly written account of some experiences which may encourage the beginner in field naturalism. Mr. George Glasgow on Egypt, the B.I.S., Reparations, and the naval treaty is-lucid as- ever and, be it added, even-more violently Francophobe.
The Fortnightly contains two articles on the "sanctions" question, by Messrs. J. H. Harley and W. Hors fall Carter, who ex - pound respectively the French and English views with elearnes and dexterity. Mr. Evelyn Waugh's tour has now reached and left Malta. Mr. Chesterton wntes an article with which we are now familiar, about intellectualism. Mr. Andre Siegfried writes similarly about the meChanization of culture. The Re-Colonising of Britain" is a moving plea for a 'return to agriculture by Mr. W. J. Blyton. Mr. Owen Tweedy is both balanced and clear in "Turkey in Modern Dress." Sir John Marriott contributes a sketch of Lord Melbourne's work in ; "The Education of a Queen."
Blaelczvood's most entertaining contribution is perhaps "The
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Orgy," a story by Mr. Walter de la Mare. There is also an account of Some Book-Hunting Adventures," by Mr. R: S. Garnett, 4" Island Entertainments," in account of some Polynesian dances, by Lady Alice Ferguson, and a sketch of "The Foreign } Tour of Gray and Walpole, by Mr. Leonard Whibley. f; In the National Review Scotus Viator is again good. Mr. 1Bonamy Dobree's critical article seems to be becoming a 'regular feature. This time it is on D. H. Lawrence, as balanced yet generous an estimate as we have read.
; The Empire Review contains one very remarkable article, Empire and Population," by Sir Leo Chiozza Money. The figures and their exposition are interesting, but the author is more inclined to be alarmed at the change than we are.
In The Round Table for June we have, as usual, the most valuable survey of current political affairs. The threads of the previous article on. India are taken up in "The Gandhi Movement," and the conclusion reached is that "the fruitful, constructive, and hopeful process inaugurated by the new British proposals has been violently interrupted, though, fortunately, not brought to „a standstill." "Puritans and Profligates in Finance" provides a searching analysis of the effect of Mr. Snowden's Budget. It is incidentally a condem- nation of "the growing irresponsibility of voters and the diminishing incentive to enterprise." A review of the inter- ! national situation as left by the Naval Conference underlines ; the immense responsibility, of this country for "finding a basis for political association between the United States and a ; lightly armed Western Europe." We must congratulate The Round Table on going outside its usual ambit to include an • article on King Alfonso and the crisis in Spain. Eschewing ; European questions, as a rule, since they are preferentially covered by other publications; The Round Table vety wisely ; recognizes the growing importance of the Iberian factor. ; Spanish interests, like British, extend to the Western no less , than to the Eastern hemisphere.
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