UNIVERSAL FEDERATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2893, 29 January 1891, Page 4

UNIVERSAL FEDERATION.

(liiOM OUr. OWN UOKKKSrON'DEXT.) Mkt.hoirn'k, Decembers. THE subject of universal federation, which occupied the pens of somo hundreds of thinkers in all partsof Australasia recently has just borne fruit in tho publications by TVlr K. W, Uolo, of the Book Arcade, of the lirnt iiistulmout of Essivusoutlu: Federation of I lio Whole, World. Tho book, which is attractively got up, contains tifty-thres eß3tiyn, for and against federation of the nations of tho earth, unci uuioufc' the writes are ton clorirymuu, nino journalist*, iivo w.hoolinuHtiTH, two legislators, two duotors, and two Indies. It will bo remembered that l>6o eways wcro sent in, a very larjro majority of thu writer aHi ruing tho desirability and posaibilty of world federation, but Mr Colo, who edits the book, has taken tho proper coureo, of occupying fully a third of tho space with contributions agniust. federation, and these are so placed, thut after the reader of tho book had taken in the arguments of a couple of essayists, who maintain that the world is slowly, but surely, progressing in tho direction of complete unity lie is' confronted with views of a directly oppoaito character. Thus tim /nw and cons of the quostion arc fairly set out, and thore onnnot bo u doubt, that the publication of the federation books—this boinfr tho first-will have a prnat educational effects on a subject with Professor Tucker, Professor Gosmaii, and Mr Alexander Sutherland, M. A., tho three gentlemen who solected the prize essaya, very properly described as " truly one of stupendous magnitude." An attractive feature in the hoik is the representative portraitsi ot all nations, each essay being preceded by a fine wool-cut. Tho second volume ot f..inn.yM is in tho Press, and will oo published in tho coureo of a few weeks.