Modern Review February 1910

At present the population is extremely small in proportion to its vast area but if the notable prophecy of one of the greatest of modern historians prove true and the future destiny of the world lies round the Pacific rather than the Atlantic then the importance of Australia With its commanding position in the Southern Pacific and its close conexion and contact with the great poplations of A [...] Standing as he does just midway between South Africa on the one side and Australia on the other the loss of India would mean the loss of the key-stone of the great arch of Empire which stretches from one side of the Indian Ocean to the other. [...] The officer in the stern keeps one eve on the crow's-nest of the %Thaler from whence a wand is steadily pointing out the direction of the fish"; the harpooner is busy in the bow with his keen-edged implements and the steersman bends eagerly forward his eyes immovably fixed on a distant point of the horizon yet ready at the slightest word to alter his course in the notified direction. [...] TIM WORK OF "CUTTING IN." The ponderous mass of blubber rises slowly in the air the while the keen spades arc busily employed in separating it from the fresh and the gentle heave of the Whaler's hull calm though the water is materially assists in this operation. [...] Principal A June nog there is printed a lecture of the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art delivered before the Society in London in Bombay.n6 THE MODERN REVIEW The whole matter is of great imporance in relation to the economic future of India and the moral and intellectual signficance and value of Indian Nationalism for India and for the world I know nothing whatever directly of Mr.