Review of Periodicals forced to admit that with all the daring inno vations that have been made, the great battle is yet to come. . . . The attitude of the government itself is more favorable to purely technical studies, like engineering, physical science, and jurisprudence," than to "the more general cultured branches." "The New Ruler of China." By Prof. Isaac Taylor Headland. Century, v. 77, p. 805 (Apr.). "The New Regime in China." By Eleanor Franklin Egan. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 587 (May). Conservation of National Resources. "A Continent Despoiled." By Rudolf Cronau. McClure's, v. 32, p. 638 (Apr.). "It may be new to you that white pine has so fallen off, that its domination of the lumber market has practically ceased. Rapidly decreasing also is our supply of hard woods, the prices of which go up higher and higher. White oak went up from $48 in 1890, to $85 in 1907; hickory from $38 to $65, and yellow poplar from $29 to $53. Expert foresters proclaim that we are, without having made any provisions against it, dangerously near a hard-wood famine, which will strike at the very foundation of some of the country's most important industries." "Making Rivers Work." By John L. Mathews. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 443 (Apr.). Criminology (Japan). "Life in a Japanese Prison." By Andrew Soutar. Wide World Magazine, v. 23, p. 60 (Apr.). "It was natural that, after parading this paradise, I should doubt if Japan's treatment of her criminals led to a decrease in crime. The officials confessed that, of robbers, bur glars, thieves, and swindlers, sixty per cent came back to the prison. Of those who had been twice imprisoned, sixty per cent re turned; of the first offenders, forty per cent found their way back. "And I did not wonder. Looking back at the pile of palatial buildings set in a garden of green and gold, I marveled that only one little man with a very big sword was needed to guard the gates and prevent the hordes of Tokio from rushing in!" Democracy. "The Old Order Changeth— IV, Progress in American Cities." By William Allen White. American Magazine, v. 67, p. 603 (Apr.). Uniformity of municipal accounts, govern ment by commission, municipal ownership, and home rule, are some of the topics here dis cussed. Eugenics. "The Older and Newer Ideals of Marriage." By Prof. W. F. Thomas. Ameri can Magazine, v. 67, p. 548 (Apr.). "At the age of perhaps eight the child's brain is practically all in; he is short only in experience and practice. He can understand
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any abstract principle and any piece of litera ture, from the theory of evolution to the Hamlet of Shakespeare, but when he spends his time with an uneducated nurse or an unideaed mother he goes to school and even to college with a mind barren." Fiction. "Their Hearts' Desires." By Judge Edward A. Parry. Cornhill, v. 26, p. 478 (Apr.). A fanciful story of an eminent barrister who in consideration of a grant of youth, a new appetite, and a two hundred and fifty yards drive in golf, takes over his nephew s personality, with his incapacity for earning money and all his existing love affairs what soever. History. "English Conspiracy and Dissent, 1660-1674, I." By Wilbur C. Abbott. Ameri can Historical Review, v. 14, p. 503 (Apr.). "The death of Oliver Cromwell on Sep tember 3, 1658, assured the ultimate downfall of the so-called Puritan cause, but the catas trophe was not as sudden as many men had hoped and prophesied. ... It is the pur pose of this paper to consider another ele ment of this fallen party—those who did not quietly submit to their fat&—during the period of their greatest and most influential activity, the first dozen years of the reign of Charles II." "The South Carolina Federalists, I." By Ulrich B. Phillips. American Historical Re view, v. 14, p. 529 (Apr.). "A beginning of the Federalist frame^of mind may be seen as early as the movement of revolt from Great Britain The movement in South Carolina was controlled by the aristocracy, and had little concern with the doctrine of natural rights. It was merely a demand for home rule, with few appeals to theory of any sort. It was, furthermore, a movement for home rule in Anglo-America as a whole, and not for the independence of the separate commonwealth of South Carolina." "The Diary of Gideon Welles; II, The Cabal against Seward, and the Emancipation Procla mation." Atlantic, v. 103, p. 471 (Apr.). Labor Problems (Women). "The Woman's Invasion; VI, The Working Home." By William Hard; Rheta Childe Door, collabo rator. Everybody's, v. 20, p. 521 (Apr.). "Widows, 800,000 of them, and more, were earning their living in the United States in the year 1900. And married women, like wise, to the number of more than 700,000. And divorced women, likewise, to the num ber of more than 60,000. One million, six hundred thousand of them altogether!" Legal Miscellany. "The Literary Side of the Law Reports." Anon. Blackwood's, v. 185, p. 506 (Apr.). Treating of the lighter and more human side of Scotch law reports.
