. Review of reviews and world's work. nes herself to the sea, it is ob-vious even to the meanest understanding that the wholepolitical situation in Eastern waters, including Aus-tralia, will be revolutionized if she can maintain herpresent ascendency. All islands will be held at hermercy,—the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies,New Zealand, and Australia. The advocates of WhiteAustralia will have to keep a more civil tongue in theirheads if the Japanese choose to enforce our favorite doc-trine of an open door, so as to render possible Japaneseimmigration into the uninhabited regions of th
. Review of reviews and world's work. nes herself to the sea, it is ob-vious even to the meanest understanding that the wholepolitical situation in Eastern waters, including Aus-tralia, will be revolutionized if she can maintain herpresent ascendency. All islands will be held at hermercy,—the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies,New Zealand, and Australia. The advocates of WhiteAustralia will have to keep a more civil tongue in theirheads if the Japanese choose to enforce our favorite doc-trine of an open door, so as to render possible Japaneseimmigration into the uninhabited regions of the Aus-tralian Commonwealth. And it is not altogether be-yond the bounds of possibility that Japan may, beforelong, undertake the championship of the Celestial he-lots who are to be shut up in the compounds of Johannes-burg. The Japanese are forty million strong. Like thebrave men of Marseilles, they know how to die. Thestory of their suicidal valor recalls the memories of theearly days of Islam, and it is only rendered the more re-. KUSSIA AND THE FAR-EASTERN LEMON. (The Muscovite reconquest of Asia.)From Lustitje Blotter (Berlin). markable by the fact that their readiness to sacrificetheir life does not appear to be sustained by any faith inthe next. They have shown themselves to be quick toseize the advantages offered by the weapons and thecraft of the West. They have not studied in vain in theheadquarters staff of Germany or in the schools of theBritish navy. They are like other human beings, sub-ject to the temptation of vanity, and they are not im-mune against the promptings of ambition. In the watch-word Asia for the Asiatics they have a weapon whichmay be used in a hundred centers at once, and whichhas already roused echoes beyond the Himalayas. THE NEW WOMAN OF NEW JAPAN. JAPANESE women of 1904 are more likethose of western countries than they arelik< their own mothers and grandmothers, saysMadame Yo Uchida, wife of the Japanese con-sul-general in New York, writing
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