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McGregor " (Where the date only is given in the list below, the review will be found in the department" The New Books" in the unpaged portion of the issue. Magazine Verse, Anthology of, for 1915 (Braith- waite).. Aug. 2 Mythology of All Races, The (Gray) Aug. 16 Aug. 30 628 Preparedness, Why (Reilly).. Anzac Book, The 990 Religion and Ethics, Encyclopædia of (Hast- Au-Dessus de la Mêlée (Rolland) Aug. 16 Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (Yeats)... May 24 Children, Books About..... 1058 Aug. 2 What Jesus Christ Thought of Himself (Stokes) May 24 Children of Hope (Whitman). Wilson, Woodrow: The Man and His Work The Outlook MAY 3, 1916 Offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York THE STORY OF THE WAR: The most picturesque and unexpected recent military news has been that of the landing of two contingents of Russian troops at Marseilles; the first on April 20, the second on April 25. There is even a rumor that a detachment of Russian troops arrived at Marseilles previous to the first date named. If so, the landing was kept a profound secret. When the first contingent of these Russians landed from their flotilla of transports, they were received by great crowds of the French people, who welcomed them with ringing cheers and shouts of "Vive la Russie !" while the French vessels in the harbor manned their yard-arms and French bands played the Russian anthem. The news, cabled at once all over the world, was received with surprise, and, on the part of all friends of the Allies, with enthusiasm. protest of nearly six months ago in regard to restrictions on neutral trade by the British sea blockade: The reply declares that the kind of blockade now being maintained is perfectly legitimate as a belligerent right; that it is being conducted in the spirit of international law; and that the aim is to give as little inconvenience or injury to neutral trade as is consistent with effectiveness. The question at once arose as to the route by which these troops were brought from Russia. Naturally no statement was made on this subject; but the fact that they were landed in the Mediterranean and other reasons have lent probability to the belief that they came from Vladivostok and Dalny by way of the Suez Canal and were taken from the great concentration camps in Manchuria. Press despatches estimate that perhaps thirty thousand of these Russian troops have now been landed at Marseilles; and other reports, not at all well confirmed, assert that it is the intention of the Allies to put 250,000 Russian troops on the western front. One underlying reason for this movement is the fact that it is much easier to equip the troops in France than in Russia, and that there are more troops in the Russian military concentration camps than can be equipped for work on the battle-line between Russia and Germany. THE BRITISH NOTE ON Last week was made public the joint reply of Great Britain and France to the American That a certain amount of interference with such trade is necessary is argued in the assertions that the old method of search at sea is in present warfare impracticable, so that vessels must either be allowed, to go without search or taken to port; that the statistics of commerce show that, so far from neutral trade having been diminished, it has enormously increased-thus the exports of the United States to Holland and the three Scandinavian colonies rose from about ninetyseven million dollars in 1913 to two hundred and thirty-five million dollars in 1915. That this increase is due to genuine commerçe with the neutral countries is scouted, and in support of this it is pointed out that such things have been proved as the consignment of meat products to dock laborers; the consignment of thousands of tons of goods to firms which do not exist in the neutral ports to which the goods are sent; the consignment of goods to a maker of musical instruments, a baker, and the keeper of a small private hotel; while it is also asserted that in Sweden at one time when the docks of Swedish ports were piled high with cargoes of American cotton the Swedish manufacturing spinners could obtain no cotton for their own use, the inference obviously being that the cotton was intended to go through Sweden to Germany. The note again calls attention to certain practices and decisions of the United States in our Civil War. It concludes with a reference to the "shocking disregard by the enemy of rights of innocent persons and neutral peoples," and declares that Great Britain would welcome any action by the combined neutral nations which would pre vent the violation of neutral rights as a whole. It seems superfluous to point out again that the questions at issue in this controversy are as far removed from the questions involved in the difference with Germany over the submarine warfare as in private affairs a trespass on one's land is removed from the shooting of one's children. THE DISTURBANCE IN IRELAND The word "revolution," and perhaps even the word "revolt," is far too high-sounding to be applied to what has happened in Ireland. Just how much connection exists between the attempt made by a ship under German commission, but disguised as a merchantman, to land arms on the Irish coast and the rioting in Dublin it is hard to say. It seems probable, however, that there was a real connection between the two things, and that both represent a futile outcome of the pernicious activities of a small but irrepressible band of Irishmen who hate England because of traditional grievances rather than of present injuries, and who hold that every means of revolt, however traitorous or violent, is justified. These men, now represented most prominently by the association called the "Sinn Fein,' are really the political heirs of the old Fenian movement. They dream of an absolutely independent republic of Ireland; and now, as always, that dream is without basis of real hope. One might almost wish for these misguided and unreasonable men the taste of German colonial government which an absolute German victory might bring to Ireland, With the capture of the vessel containing the arms was captured that strange personage, Sir Roger Casement. There is consid erable ground for the announced belief of Sir A. Conan Doyle and others that this man is touched with insanity. Although he is from the north of Ireland and, we believe, a Protestant, he has been an active figure in the conspiracies of the most extreme and irreconcilable Irish revolutionists. In his early career he did excellent service with the British Government, especially in connection with the exposure of the cruelties in the Congo and the Putumayo affair in Peru. a reward he was knighted and pensioned. But when the war broke out, instead of following the example of the Irish Nationalists under John Redmond and the Ulster anti As Nationalists under Sir Edward Carson in uniting for patriotic effort for the good of the whole country, Sir Roger escaped to Germany, and has been plotting there ever since to bring about an invasion of Ireland from Germany. The street fighting in Dublin was probably timed, but wrongly timed, to aid the "invasion." At all events, the rioters seized the post-office in Dublin and some buildings near by, together with the adjacent park, cut the telephone and telegraph wires from the post-office, and resisted attack with some vigor. The report made in Parliament by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Augustine Birrell, on April 25, states that the troops were brought from beyond Dublin, that many of the rioters have been arrested, and that the situation was at the time well in hand. Later Mr. Asquith announced that outside Dublin Ireland was tranquil and that in Dublin the situation was satisfactory. Eleven or twelve soldiers and policemen were killed and perhaps twice that number wounded. The number of killed and injured among the rioters is not known at this writing. An attack by German cruisers on the English coast town of Lowestoft may possibly have been timed to increase the impression of invasion'; it did little harm, and on the appearance of British war-ships the German ships hastily retreated. The Outlook has always favored Home Rule and still favors it, but independence for Ireland would be ruinous to the Irish, and we do not believe that it is desired by more than a fraction of them. If this is a revolt by Irish fanatics and self-seekers, uniting them with the cause of German absolutism when the sympathies of all lovers of liberty are united against German absolutism, it demonstrates the incapacity of the leaders of the revolt to organize or maintain a truly free government. The best that can be said of them is that their nationalism is a purely selfish nationalism. They have no notion of the meaning of either nationalism, brotherhood, or self-government. MILITARY MEASURES IN NEW YORK Preparedness has found its way into State. legislation-notably in New York. The Legislature of New York State has adjourned, leaving for the Governor's approval or disapproval five military bills. Three of these have to do with the State militia. If we are as a Nation to continue to depend for |