not lack clearness, precision, a rational judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be, we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire in the English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of detail." (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $3.50.) The scattered memories The Memories of of half a century of public Rose Eytinge life should contain some incidents of real value. The impression eft by this book is one of good temper, success in the author's chosen profession, and kindly judgment of her comrades. There are no striking events, no tragedies recorded, nor exciting adventures narrated. The pretty, popu lar actress happily associated with the Wallacks, Davenport, Booth, and others of that period, writes almost entirely of her sunny days. Her experiences in Egypt, where she lived in the diplomatic circle, after giving up the stage for a time; her acquaintances among some of the lesser lights in English literature, and her sincere friendships here in America, make up a succession of interests, of which she writes pleasantly. There are spirit and individuality in many of her comments upon people, and she embellishes her book with excellent portraits of her theatrical friends. (The Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.50.) The New This volume includes unrelated papers-republications of previous Idolatry articles and addresses. Unrelated we call them, though a certain unity of theme, or at least of spirit, connects them: they all deal with the practical and ethical problems incident to a democratic and commercial age. We regret that Dr. Gladden has put at the fore in this volume his discussions on "tainted money," because this will prejudice some readers against the rest of the book; and its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people. (McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. $1.20, net.) The Purple A narrative of unusual charm is this idyl by Mr. W. H. HudLand son. The fair land discovered by Magellan in 1500-the " Purple Land" of Richard Lamb-with its overlooking mountain, Monte Vidi, is full of romance. A young, reckless Englishman, fired by love for Paquita, of Buenos Ayres, elopes with her to Monte Video, and, being quite penniless, leaves her in the care of an old aunt and sets off for an estancia two hundred miles away, to find his fortune. The time of the romance is in the early seventies, and the ten years' siege of Monte Video is still fresh in the minds of the Spanish-Americans, always on the verge and often in the throes of revolution. Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us. Whether the book found favor or not twenty years ago, when it first appeared, now the reader who can appreciate literary charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediæval ideas, will enjoy it to the full. It is well to preserve so graphic a picture of the old guacho life on the pampas of South America. (E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50.) The Renegade and Other Tales We have spoken more than once, we think, of the sound literary work and sympathetic feeling in Miss Martha Wolfenstein's "Idyls of the Gass." Here is another volume of short tales relating to Jewish life which is equally admirable-full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor. One of the tales, we are glad to say, appeared in The Outlook. (The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia. $1.25.) In the sense that it deals Vikings of the with early voyagers and exPacific plorers, Miss Agnes Laut's new book may be considered a companion volume to her "Pathfinders of the West," published last year. As before, she writes of men whose names are household words Bering, Drake, Cook, Vancouver-and of others less familiar to the public-Benyowsky, Gray, Ledyard, and Baronof; and always in a way that clearly visualizes for the reader the exciting events and notable deeds described, the text being based on first sources. What Radisson was to Miss Laut's former work, Robert Gray-" as true a naval hero as ever trod the quarter-deck, who did the same for the West as Cartier did for the St. Lawrence and Hudson for the river named after him "-is to the present one. Miss Laut feels no doubt that Gray deserves full recognition as the discoverer of the Columbia, and she would also rank him with Cook, by reason of his having "led the way for the American flag around the world." The book is freely and well illustrated. (The Macmillan Company, New York. $2, net.) THE FUTURE OF ARBITRATION In Dr. de Martens's article on the Portsmouth Treaty in your issue of November 11 one sentence occurs which seems to me unfortunate and destined to do harm among the large number of your readers who naturally are not informed on the little-understood subject of world organization. It is as follows: "Nevertheless, I am far from thinking that every dispute is really capable of being settled by the permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, or by any other kind of arbitration." If by "every dispute " he means civil questions such as led to our Civil War, I do not differ from him. Civil war is in a category by itself. But he indubitably refers to international disputes, and here he is certainly at variance with the distinguished members of the International Arbitration Society which met in Washington in January, 1904. Under the presidency of the Hon. John W. Foster, this convention unanimously supported the resolution that between Great Britain and the United States there should be a treaty pledging the arbitration of "all differences which they may fail to adjust by diplomatic negotiations," and urging that our Government should enter into similar treaties with other Powers. Such men as Judge Gray and the Hon. Oscar S. Straus, both members of the Hague Court, the Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, the Hon. S. R. Thayerour former Minister to Holland-and other eminent men were on the committee of resolutions, and among those participating in the meeting or in charge of it were Andrew Carnegie, Cardinal Gibbons, President Jordan, President D. C. Gilman, and two hundred other men of National repute, too numerous to mention. It was a picked assembly, including many judges and jurists. legal. Two nations were trying to gain influence or control over a region which neither of them owned and to which neither had a moral right. It was a question of world importance, and, had other nations done their duty and taken the part which one of the Hague Conventions-that on "Good Offices and Mediation "-provided, there seems no reason why not only might the legal questions have been forced to an arbitration, but the political questions involving the security of Japan and a Pacific outlet for Russia have been amicably settled by a concerted agreement among the Powers. The That it was not so settled must be Russia's bitter regret to-day. The security which Japan has at last achieved, at the expense of incalculable loss of blood and treasure, might have been obtained without that loss. war resulted, first, from the failure of the world to provide sufficient world organization to prevent the causes of this war; second, from the lack of concerted action on the part of three or four strong nations to outlaw nations that refuse to arbitrate; and, finally, from the failure of Russia and Japan to use the means at their command to arbitrate such questions as were arbitrable. The inability of the Hague Court to settle all cases is merely a temporary inability (if, indeed, it be such), and not surely, as Dr. de Martens seems to imply, a permanent inability. Such ques tions as he now calls " political," and there fore, as he thinks, lie outside the province of the Court, are to be put under international laws just as soon as the world creates machinery for this. The first step in the process is the action of the second Hague Conference, which next summer probably will consider the formation of a regular International Assembly for consultation on all questions of international relationship, especially those which, unsettled, lead to friction and war. This year, in which public opinion intelligently directed can bring this matter to fruition, may mark the greatest advance ever yet taken in human history to promote justice and rational relationships between nations. The recommendations of such a World Assembly, when ratified by the majority of the nations represented in it, would at once become international law for those nations that ratified, and as such would be interpreted by the Supreme Court of Nations at The Hague. The neutralization of waters and the neutralization of danger spots, which The questions at issue were not purely create endless "political " difficulties, belong Dr. de Martens holds that before the recent war "arbitration would have been perfectly possible if only the Court of Arbitration had been called upon to decide, not political questions, but the points of law brought into question by this conflict." I have been credibly assured that the Czar was advised by his legal counsel as late as November before the beginning of the war that all questions at issue could be settled by arbitration, and that the Czar was ready to have them so settled, but, with the spirit of Oriental dalliance, he delayed and delayed until he suddenly awaked to find himself in an unexpected war. to the work of such a World Assembly. No radical change in human nature is necessary for the consummation, within a decade or two, of a world organization with a legislative department as a gradual evolution from a consultative assembly, and an executive department of commissions, in addition to the judicial department already created in 1889. As Justice Brewer pointed out and emphasized in his address at Mohonk last June, the Hague Court will never need an army to compel any nation, defeated by its decision, to abide by the verdict; neither will even the strongest military nation dare go to war if outlawed by the other nations for so doing. As Mr. Carnegie has declared recently, three or four great nations acting in concert, not in an offensive or defensive alliance, but in the interests of world peace, can, by a declaration of non-intercourse, prevent any war that threatens, whether the causes be legal or political. LUCIA AMES MEAD. Boston, Massachusetts. DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES FOR THE BOER WOMEN At the close of the Boer War the women and girls were left in great need of all the ordinary comforts of life. Worse than that, they were left with no chance to earn an honest living. Through the energy and wisdom of Miss Hobhouse, of England, many of them are now learning the simple domestic industries which will at least clothe them, and will by and by develop into something of great importance to these suffering people. Associated with Miss Hobhouse, though thousands of leagues away, is the devoted Countess degli Asinelli, who resides in Switzerland. As the result of her unwearied exertions, about four hundred and fifty spinning-wheels have been collected from the peasant homes of Switzerland, which are to be sent to the women of the Transvaal, where Miss Hobhouse has already a successful school for knitting, spinning, and weaving. To carry these wheels to South Africa, to install them and pay for instruction in their use, requires more money than is at the command of the ladies who have the business in hand. The undersigned has offered to transmit to them any sums of money that sympathetic friends in America will send for this purpose. Any amount of proof can be furnished as to the need of such work among the Boers, as to the success of the undertaking already, and as to the actual use of the money for the purposes mentioned, none of it being lost by the friction even of clerical work and postage. The latest word from Miss Hobhouse is as follows: "We are at work on a very handsome large square rug, spun and dyed by us, to carry out an order. Daily I sit at this rug with an orphan on either side of me, the three of us working in a row, Meantime Hester, one of our most dependable and best-qualified helpers, mainly carries on the little school of knitters at Vrededorp. Her trials have been many, but she never flinches. . . . Two or three more Philippolis girls have gone back to their farms from the school and will there spin and weave rugs. Each of these cases makes me feel that we are moving a step forward in planting the industries in the country homes. Lack of wheels keeps us back more than anything else. You can imagine, therefore, how overjoyed we were at the offer from Switzerland of a number of Swiss wheels now laid by and out of use in that country. I have cabled acceptance of this most generous offer, and really begin to hope that the shipload of wheels' I asked for actually will reach these shores." Are there not those who will help to pay for the sending of these wheels to South Africa? Perhaps they will carry with them some of the cunning of the Swiss women to the fingers of their far-away sisters. Checks or money sent to the undersigned will be personally acknowledged, and the money sent at once to the Countess degli Asinelli for forwarding the spinning-wheels to the Transvaal. ISABEL C. BARROWS, 135 East Fifteenth Street, New York City. PAGE 1053 8, 148 347 956 292 291 4 1058 153 590, 846 99 947 INDEX TO THE OUTLOOK September 2 to December 30, 1905 (Four Months) [Editorial articles (as distinct from paragraphs) are EDITORIAL: Adirondacks, Save the.. American Board, The... American Civic Association Americans in the Rough. Anglo-Japanese Treaty, The.. Anti-Alcoholic Congress, The.. Arbitration, International... Arizona and New Mexico. Australia, The Japanese "Peril" in Bacon, Mr. Robert.. Ballot Reform... EDITORIAL.-Continued. Balfour (Mr.) Resigns.. English Church, New Spirit in the. Irish Home Rule.... Labor Leaders.. Passive Resistance.. OF PAGI Barnardo, Thomas John 246 *Face to Face..... Bartlett, John....... 907 Ferry-boats, Municipal.. Beef Packers Convicted, The. 237 Filipino Grievances Heard.. Bengal, The Partition of.. 448 Football Reform.... Bonaparte, Hon. Charles J... 340 Forest Preservation Bonaparte's (Secretary) Report.. 903 Bouguereau, Adolphe Guillaume Bryan, Mr., on the Industrial Problem. 146 Bulla Cruciata, The... 290 California Legislative Scandal, A.. 803 Campaign Contributions, Corporate. Canada and Mr. Chamberlain.. 949 Canada, No Reciprocity for. 348 Canadian Tariff, Revising the.. 948 Carnegie Foundation, The... 799 Carnegie, Mr., at St. Andrew's. 451 Chicago Printers' Strike.. 99 Chinese Affairs: Boycott, The.... China and America..... 96, 952 Christianity in China. 57 Forest Reserves.. France: Church and State Morocco.... Gaynor and Greene, Two Fugitives German Affairs: Cholera, The... Morocco.... 648 103. 952 *Graft.... 351, Chino-Japanese Treaty.. 1052 Grand Rapids Charter, The New. Missionaries Murdered. 591, 849 Greet, Ben, Company.. Shanghai Strike, The.... 1052 Haakon VII... Chinese Immigration.. Choate, Mr., on American Commerce. 798 "Hänsel and Gretel" Christian Endeavor Memorial Fund, The.. Christian Paganism... 914 *Christians, Who are.... 699 Harvard-Technology Alliance, The.. Hawaiian Islands'.. *Christmas Thought, A... 955 Hérédia, José Maria de. Hicks-Beach, Sir Michael. Clarke, Sir Caspar Purdon.. 592 Hoist the Black Flag College Administration. 451 Honor Among Clergymen. Hudson Bay Route, The. Hudson River, Anniversary of the Discovery 1046 of the... 901 Hughes, Mr. Charles E.. 636 Hungary. 801 Idaho's Desert, Reclaiming. Crop, The Six-Billion... 903 Cuba, Political Affairs in. Cuba, President Palma on.. 690 Immigration Conference, The National. Inauguration Day...... 241, 288 254 Cuban Finances.. 2 India: Currency, An Elastic... 901 Curzon, Lord.. Curzon, Lord, and Lord Kitchener... 1,896 Cynical Optimism.. 14 New Viceroy, The Damrosch, Mr. Frank.. 245 Defense of... Indians, A Human Policy for the. Indians, Lake Mohonk Conference on the. Insurance Investigation, The.. 4, 101, 143, 28. International Peace Congress, An.... Irving, Sir Henry,. |