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Dr, Toynbee's "Survey of International Affairs for 1934" Is, as usual, comprehensive, instructive and indispensable, Of special interest. is the part devoted to affairs in the Far East, which is handled by Mr. G. E. Hubbard, whose powers of patient research' and scholarly application are well known. Mr, Hubbard's survey occupies 69 pages of the volume and {t deals with internal developments in China and Japan, Japan's relations with the Western Powers and China, Russo-Japanese relations, Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet. For those who desire to study world problems this book is, of course, a vital adjunct to their library ud its special attention to economic affairs, under the guidance of Mr. HE. V. "Hodson, will be generally ap-Dreclated. "The value of this survey increases as each year passes—e.1. enough to be awed by the hanging of the "Manchester Martyrs" in 1867.
aris ltd vias a most elegoat fourteen she went 12, achoal in very attractive young lady with a beautiful speaking voice when at 21 she married the brilliant and earnest reformer Dr. Pankhurst. She had five children—Christabel, Sylvia, Adela (a future upholder of the Women's Party in Australia) and. two sons, one of whom died at four years old and the other in young manhood. Most people think of Mrs. Pankburst as a raging sulfragette. But she had other preoccupations. In "1894 she and her husband started the first Committes for the Relief of the Unemployed snd fed 2.000 dally of Manchester istrict's workless and hungry. In 1895 she pressed for workhouse reform and got It—for she was ever 8 constructive critic. Tt was about 1672, when she was fourteen, that she was'taken to her first suffrage mecting. She may be pardoned, therefore, for feeling in 1899, when the cause hod made no ' noticeable advance, that new methods were necessary. The constitutional way was tried. but in May, 1905, the Women's Enfranchisement HI! was "talked out" In the House of Commons amidst hilarious laughter. Mrs. Pankhurst was fiery, her daughter Christabel was ferier (she figured in this year's Honours List as a Dame of the British Empire). and the militant suffrage movement began. This book telis the story of the now almost forgotten fight which fended In-enfranchisement for women 1918, about 9 year after Canada and New York State had led the way. Some parts of the struggle almost Incredible to read of now.
'The tale is told quite fairly. 'There were cleavages between Mrs. Pank-burst and her daughters on matters of policy. notably during the War when the mother and her' eldest daughter threw themselves hotly nto the Allied cause, while Sylvia and Adela held more logically to the women's anti-wor platform. " Tt follows that Miss Sylvia. Pankhurst study of her mother's life gains in balance from the fact that their views were not always in accord.
Tt is good for women to remember Mrs, Pankhurst and her followers oF to learn something about them. They bore the brunt of a hard battle of which we reap the fruits, and she herself lived and died poor, burnt out by the fire of her enthusiasms.
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