. Review of reviews and world's work . e; for the embouchure of theSierra Leone River with the natural confor-mation of the country on the south side of it onwhich the capital, Freetown, is situated, hassuch advantages that, in spite of its unhealthi-ness in the past, it is now one of the importantnaval stations of the British Empire on theAtlantic trade route between Europe andSouth Africa. Known for a long time after its settlementas the White Mans Grave, drainage andhygiene improvements have reduced the dan-gers of residence to the European constitutionto such an extent that it has been mad
. Review of reviews and world's work . e; for the embouchure of theSierra Leone River with the natural confor-mation of the country on the south side of it onwhich the capital, Freetown, is situated, hassuch advantages that, in spite of its unhealthi-ness in the past, it is now one of the importantnaval stations of the British Empire on theAtlantic trade route between Europe andSouth Africa. Known for a long time after its settlementas the White Mans Grave, drainage andhygiene improvements have reduced the dan-gers of residence to the European constitutionto such an extent that it has been made a sta-tion for white troops. Freetown is also theterminal of a railway into the hinterland,where rubber and cotton cultivation are beingdeveloped with much promise of it is possible that Liberia, whichlies alongside of Sierra Leone, to the southeast,might enter into some kind of federation withit. There would be many advantages to bothin such a union, not the least of which would 618 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. A TYPICAL STREET IN FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE be the preservation of Liberia from the nib- Sierra Leone hinterland railway into the bling encroachments of the French on the Liberian territory, and so developing the north and east borders. The best means of economic resources of both as a preliminary promoting this would be the extension of the to political union. CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS IN PARAGUAY AND VENEZUELA PARAGUAY and Venezuela have been so?*? frequently associated in the public mindwith wars and revolutions that it seemsstrange to read of their celebrating withintheir respective borders the victories of is customary to speak of these two repub-lics as young;] yet both of them havepassed the century-mark, Paraguay havingattained her hundredth birthday on May 14of this present year, and Venezuela extendingher celebration over a whole month, June 24to July 24, with July 5 as the central date, ason that day in 1811 her declaration of ind
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