. Review of reviews and world's work. an-American Railway Committee, he has made it his busi-ness to study trade routes and conditions with particu-lar reference to the progress of the West Coast. NoAmerican is better equipped for the task of acquaint-ing his countrymen with the essential facts of the pres-ent situation in those countries. His book is timelyand important. Mr. Thomas F. Millard, the war correspondent andtraveler, has attained a world-wide reputation as per-haps the leading ex-ponent among Eng-lish speaking men ofthe modern criticalattitude toward Ja-pan. Mr. Millardvoices this
. Review of reviews and world's work. an-American Railway Committee, he has made it his busi-ness to study trade routes and conditions with particu-lar reference to the progress of the West Coast. NoAmerican is better equipped for the task of acquaint-ing his countrymen with the essential facts of the pres-ent situation in those countries. His book is timelyand important. Mr. Thomas F. Millard, the war correspondent andtraveler, has attained a world-wide reputation as per-haps the leading ex-ponent among Eng-lish speaking men ofthe modern criticalattitude toward Ja-pan. Mr. Millardvoices this criticismunreservedly in hisbook on The NewFar East (Scrib-ners). Americanswho have read littlein recent years con-cerning Japan thathas not been eulogis-tic, if not flattering,in tone will find inMr. Millards chap-ters an effective pres-entation of the other side of the shield. The materialhas been gathered during the past six years, coveringthe entire period of the Russo-Japanese War, of whichthe author was an interested F. MILLARD. The Philippine Experiences of an AmericanTeacher, by William B. Freer (Scribners), is notmerely what might be expected from its title,—an ac-count of the Philippine school system,—but it is evenmore important as a revelation of Filipino deals with the familiar, common life in the islands,and shows how American educational methods arebeing adapted to native conditions. Mr. H. Fielding Halls study A People at School(Macmillan) is a monograph on the Burmese, the resultof a number of years residence in Burma. BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. A very important biography, that of the late Arch-bishop Temple, has just appeared in two volumes, im-ported from London by the Macmillans. It is en-titled The Memoirs of Archbishop Temple, by SevenFriends, and is edited by E. G. Sandford, Archdeaconof Exeter. Dr. Frederick Temple was one of those char-acters which belong, not only to their own generation.
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