Review of reviews and world's work . t commerce fromundisturbed natural channels,—or, rather, tocreate natural channels where none existedbefore,—which is not quite paralleled on theAtlantic. The Canadian Pacific has its ownsplendid Atlantic service and Pacific serv-ice as vrell. but, with this exception, it hasnot generally been found profitable for greatrailway systems and transatlantic steamshiplines to work together. When the commerceof the Pacific Coast has developed as far asthe commerce of the Atlantic Coast has, theprediction may be hazarded that there willbe a great drift of traffic t
Review of reviews and world's work . t commerce fromundisturbed natural channels,—or, rather, tocreate natural channels where none existedbefore,—which is not quite paralleled on theAtlantic. The Canadian Pacific has its ownsplendid Atlantic service and Pacific serv-ice as vrell. but, with this exception, it hasnot generally been found profitable for greatrailway systems and transatlantic steamshiplines to work together. When the commerceof the Pacific Coast has developed as far asthe commerce of the Atlantic Coast has, theprediction may be hazarded that there willbe a great drift of traffic to one or two con-trolling centers, such, for example, as SanFrancisco and Seattle, and that it will notbe necessary for any railway to indulge incostly oceanic feed lines. But this period isprobably a good many years off. In the mean-time, each transcontinental railway must fendfor itself, and if it does not encourage cer-tain steamers to bring it certain traffic, boththe steamers and the traffic will go to some-body elses LAKE LOUISE. ON THE CANADIAN PACIFIC. DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. f T had been expected that Dr. EdwardEverett Hale would write for this majia-zine a prefatory note on the centenary of thebirth of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to ac-company what we are printinji, for the sec-ond time, from Dr. Hales pen, written atthe time of the death of his friend and fel-low-townsman nearly fifteen years ago. Asthe Holmes centenary is approaching ( was born August 29, 1809) thereseemed to us nothing more fitting than toprint once more a part at least of the ad-mirable sketch of Dr. Holmes career writ-ten for us by Dr. Hale and published in thisReview in November, 1894. Dr. Holmes attained the age of eighty-five. Dr. Hale, who was thirteen yearsyounger, was born April 3, 1822, and was,therefore, past the age of eighty-seven whenhe died on June 10, in his old home at Rox-bury, which is now part of Boston. For sixyears past Dr. Hale had been chaplain ofthe Unite
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