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lance of the chawelier of the universities of the kingdom. The special funds will be
devoted to medical researches and their application.
The fifth and last section aims to reward labors for peace among nations and
good will among men. The procedure is the same generally as above mentioned.
Those who may propose contestants are: members of the Nobel committees; of legisla-
tive bodies of all countries; of the Interparliamentary Council ; of the Commission of
the International Permanent Bureau of Peace; of the International Institute of Law;
university professors of law, political sciences, history, and philosophy, and former
prize winners.
For this prize a champion has been chosen in France who appeals to every one at
all familiar with his lifelong fight as peculiarly fit to enter the lists. He is a merciless
besieger, and knows no compromise. He demands the unconditional surrender of war,
and characterizes all improvements and mitigations as devices of the devil, who fears
that this ablest work of his may be abolished unless it is made less frightful. Frederick
Passy is a very old man, within a few months of eighty, and almost blind; but he is
still a worker as ever. Since his first article against war, written when he was twenty-
five, he has given himself to the cause as wholly and unreservedly as it is conceivable
that a man can strive for one idea. So this makes something over half a century that
he has fought for peace. He is a noble paradox, this veteran warrior.
As accurately as those things that fail to happen can be judged, M. Passy has cer-
tainly prevented one or two wars. Owing to his letter to Le Temps in April, 1867,
popular wrath died down and another sentiment took its place, with the direct result
that France and Germany decided not to take to arms over the Luxembourg broil.
Instead of war there came into being the Permanent International Peace League, of
which M. Passy is still general secretary and the most active member.
He has probably liit upon the most effective weapon for the putting down of
weapons. He is crafty enough to know that men will fight, all morality to the contrary
notwithstanding. But will men make themselves absurd, if they know it? Ridicule
has already smothered duelling. So M. Passy points out the utter idiocy of war. He
presided over the Universal Peace Congress of 1889, whicli became a regular annual
institution from that year on. He has been a member, since its organization, of the
Central Bureau of Peace Societies at Berne. With Randal Cremer, M. P., he founded
the International Interparliamentary Union, wherein the legislatures of Europe and
America are represented. Wars keep on happening, but he refuses to know what defeat
is. A general war might break out to-morrow, and he w r ould not give up; for he ever
holds loyally to the creed of his youth,— namely, that the development of science,
means of communication, mixture of products, men, ideas, and language will in the
end do away with war forever. His hope is his faith in human nature.— Eugene P.
Ltle, Jr., in Everybody's Magazine.
We have received, from the author, a copy of Mr. Henry C. Tulley's Handbook on
Engineering, which we have examined with much pleasure. This book is intended as a
manual of instruction for engineers and others who have to do with the practical care
and management of dynamos, boilers, engines, pumps, and other steam engineering
appliances. Mr. Tulley has had some tweuty-five years of this kind of experience him-
self, so that he knows the seamy, practical side of the case, as well as the theoretical
side. The information given ranges from the general principles of electricity to the
setting of engine valves. The author appears to have done his work very well. (Henry
C. Tulley & Co., Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Pocket form, flexible leather
covers, 792 pages; price, $3.50.)