REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

Southern Cross, Volume 14, Issue 29, 15 September 1906, Page 15

REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

How to get into the barbed-wire-g-uai'ded fortress known as Collingwood ‘‘Tote,”- which the Victoiian Premier, Mr Bent, has described as more' formidably guarded than Port Arthur, is a) question which has puzzled many. In this case it is not by any means those who seek entrance .who find it. Much curiosity exists as to what is in this combination of betting shop and woodyard, .where the “Tote King” reigns supreme. .Curiosity may bo satisfied, for the September ‘‘Review of Reviews” contains five very fine photos of the interior, taken while the police held it after the historic raid a few months ago. The rest of the ‘‘Review is most interesting. Archbishop Clarke gives a deliverance on Gambling ; Mr John Vale on the Victorian Licpnsing Bill ; Senator Staniforth Smith continues his contributions on ‘‘Java” ; Mr C. Watson replies to Mr George Reid’s strictures on ‘‘Socialism” ; a Melbourne man, who has had actual experience, tells how General Booth trains his emigrants an article which ought to be read by everybody if only to show how senseless is the cry raised against his proposal to send out men to our own States. The Character Sketch is of the late Michael Bavitt. The regular features of the magazine arc thoroughly up to the mark, the leading article covering an exceedingly wide and vairied field. In the History ol the Month the editor (Mr W. H. Judkins) writes on the question of free speech in connection with the Victorian Gov-

ernment’s late egregious blunderAOur readers should take particular notice of the prizes which are offered for essays on “International Arbitration v. War.”