There ures features in the April, not the least among. them being' "Piscator's" poem, "heu, Fugaces," an interpretation of the of Sibelius' "Valse Triste." not everyone the interpretation, presses himself, cellent verse.
Carroll Faust, who is leaving Chins where he hat Jong shone authority or parasitology, contributes most interesting article on "Lanx-tuke Infection among the Formositn Ab-
The author of this book is at odds with humanity or, rather with civilization. That is the civilization he knows. For those he does not know, the civilizations of Asia and Africa, he seems to have a profound respect. He sees European civilization, as the prophet Da saw the Bubylonian empire of his day, like a beast with seven heads and' ten horns, It devours all. with which it comes in contact and. impores its standards on peoples who, but for their contact with it, would, presumably, have lived idy the sylvan surroundings of the African forest or the deserts of Avia, The trouble with a writer of this calibre is that he sees only tone side of the truth. He sees and magnifies the hardships involved in the civilization he knows and he is almost entirely ignorant, oF else, he ignores the much greater hards! of those races on whom our ci zation impinges. We have an example at our doors, sent time the a river—of emigres Shantung into these starving people in Shantung better off than the "wage slaves" in England or other European evuntries? They are not. The fact is that if one'of these poverty stricken families in Shantung were given the chance to live in a European lum and eat the food of the poorest Inbourer in England they would esteem themselves in luxury. Mr. Woolf is ying from the ihe he hae of the Lick Observntory in California, and now at Amoy University, deals' with determining the distances of stars by means of the spectroscope. "The Isles of the Blest" is an historical phantasy contributed by C. W. Young. Mr.
Lowdermiik writes of the wrestry of Japan.
Instructive data is to be found {in the several standard departments of the Journal, notably'
Kennel," where' some points on the training of dogs are elucidated H. Duncan of the Hoffmungrheim Kennels. "The Garden" is given over to a very recondite botanical exposition of cherry trees and bu
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