PAGE ... 398 398 ... ... 366 *** Leading Articles-- continued. PAGE Frontispiece: Shall Britain Rule both Air and Sea ? ... 330 An Italian Estimate of Josephine Butler 391 Progress of the World (illustrated) 331 391 How Badly we all Talk 392 Character Sketch : Mr. Richard Bell, M.P. 344 393 The Future of Trade Unions The Harvest of the Hague Conference 393 350 Where Bibles are Printed 394 A Peace Pilgrimage to South America ... 359 The Oldest City in the World ... 395 The Fight Against Alcoholism 396 Interviews on Topics on the Month : The First Apostle of the Simple Life... 396 84. Colour Photography : The Secretary of the Royal The Fourth of the Christian Graces 397 Photographic Society 364 How to Play Chopin 85. The Pope on “Modernism." By a Catholic How Plays are Written 365 399 Art in the Magazines 86. The New China : Francis W. Fox 400 87. Methodist Reunion : Rev. John Scott Lidgett 368 The Reviews Reviewed :Leading Articles in the Reviews : The American Review of Reviews 401 The Australasian Review of Reviews ... 401 When Wheat Fails 370 402 Long Life and Easy Death 371 403 Battle Air-ships 372 The Contemporary Review 404 A Ship for Millionaires ... 373 The Fortnightly Review 405 A Cure for Noisy Dinner-Parties 373 405 An Electric Villa 374 406 Why American Marriages Fail 375 North American Review Church and Labour 376 Blackwood-The London 408 The Passing of Korea 377 408-9 Mahomet an Orthodox Christian 377 410 The Stuttgart International 378 410 The German Chancellor 379 Topics of the Day in the Periodicals of the The Hague Conference Month The Case Against a National Militia 411 381 The Anglo-Russian Agreement 382 413 In Defence of the Second Duma 382 Two Books of the Month :Russia in Mid-Stream 383 The Japanese Peril ... 384 420 The Indian Nationalist Movement 385 424 The Plague in India 386 425 The Kaiser as a Captain of Industry 387 Splendid Paupers Leading Books of the Month 430 The Grand oid Man of Roumania Languages and Esperanto 431 “Papa” Ruskin and His Little Friends 389 Diary and Obituary for September About Herbert Spencer 432 390 A Great Peace Maker * System”-A Business Magazine ... 390 435 Woman Suffrage at the Cape 390 The Power of Production 407 ... ... 380 ... ... 387 388 436 REVIEW OF REVIEWS OFFICES :- CHEAP. 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On September 30th the vessel was steered in various directions, and a speed of twenty iniles an hour was easily attained. Photograph byl [F. C. Coleman, Darlington, The Famous Cunarder “Lusitania." This imniense tui bine line', which cost £1,500,000, made her first trip to New York in 5 days 54 minutes from land 10 land. SHALL BRITAIN RULE BOTH AIR AND SEA ? BATAS THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. Our as a The Oct. Ist, 1907. surely starve. We need to call in the scientist Are we within measurable distance to our aid. He in his turn is ready to summon the of starvation ? The rise in the air to the rescue, and to obtain from it the nitrates Daily Bread. price of bread has come necessary for the production of a supply of wheat reminder of one of those elemen equal to the demand for that prime staple of life. A tary facts of existence that overshadow in their signi- process, so Professor Thompson tells us, has recently ficance even the most momentous of political revolu been perfected by which atmospheric nitrogen can tions. “Give us this day our daily bread ” is the uni be converted into a fertiliser equal in value to the versal petition of the human race. If we are to credit product of the Chilian nitrate mines. Already three the calculations of Sir William Crookes and Professor establishments are engaged in the manufacture of Silvanus Thompson, the day when our daily supply nitrate of lime by this process on a scale and at a of bread will cease is not far distant. The wheat-grow- price that make it a commercially marketable commoing area of the world, we are apt to forget, is strictly dity. An unlimited supply of fertiliser means an limited in extent, for wheat will only grow in tem immensely increased yield of wheat. Science has perate countries. The present production of the redressed the deficiency of Nature and enabled us wheat-growing lands is sufficient to provide bread for to banish the spectre of wholesale starvation from our 666,000,000 people. The mouths to be filled already midst, at least for some time to come. number 585,000,000. We are, therefore, dangerously The threatened strike in the railnearing the food limit. As bread-eaters have been Achilles Heel way world has also served as a increasing at double the rate of the area of wheat of reminder of how easily the com Civilisation. under cultivation, the day when we shall starve can plex mechanism of modern life not be far removed. At present it is the white races, can be put out of gear. For railways are the the wheat-eaters, who dominate the world. What will Achilles heel of a civilised State. They are its most be their fate when wheat fails ? Will their heritage vulnerable point of attack. To paralyse them is like pass to the eaters of rice, the food of the yellow stopping the circulation of the blood in the human peoples of the earth? body. No one has any conception of what a general This is an alarming prospect which strike affecting all the railways of the kingdom would The Scientist should stimulate the white wheat The mere possibility of such a strike has been the Rescue, eating races to energetic efforts to sufficient to bring about a drop of ten million sterling increase the yield of wheat per in the nominal value of railway stock. An actual At present the average number of bushels stoppage would cause intolerable inconvenience to raised per acre in New Zealand is 251; while in the general public, would demoralise trade in every Russia and many other countries the acre only pro branch, and result in a vast amount of suffering the duces nine bushels. To fertilise wheat and increase extent and intensity of which it is impossible to its yield nitrogen is required, and the demand for estimate. As a people we live from hand to mouth nitrates has been so great in recent years that the and depend absolutely upon the railways to bring to natural available supply is approaching exhaustion. our daily bread. Even a temporary difficulty Unless we can discover some means of making two in the rapid handling of the goods traffic by the railears of wheat grow where one grew before, we shall ways is sufficient at once to send up the price of mean. to acre. us |
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