He does not believe that the Filipinos would be capable of keeying their independence if it were given them and strongly favours retention of the islands and sufficient control, over the ad-the people respectable government and international trade a chance to develop them. He is very sympathetic with common-sense Dutch methods in the East Indies and believes that Holland's tenure will be Insting because British and Dutch interests are there interdependent; while, if America holds and improves the Philippines, the interests of all three powers will he interdependent and will be secured by the improvement of the Singapore base, for: which he isan enthusiastic advocate. Panama and Singapore are the two keys to the Pacific and to guarantee economic and political stability in the East he would have America and Great Britain hold and fortify both.
There is a great deal mot that is worth emphasizing in Mr. Roosevelt's book, but it has already been given more space than usual, and the reviewer can only say in conclusion that this book will not find an honourable place on the shelves of pacifists, Pinks, patient conciliators and Oriental "Nation-ever be put in grimmer—or more romantie—than
for that independence which has now virtually ceased to exist. It all happened more than a hundred ago, and the black men of have since shown themselves unfit to maintain, without American, supervision, independence on reasonably civilized lines. But the very fact that one negro revolt did so far succeed has a significance that lends political as well as romantic interest to. "Black Ma-
Jesty," by. John W. Vandercook.
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