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hospitality to representatives of other nationalities the others would perforce have to follow suit. The 



who visit these shores. It is a very modest demand financial difficulty is one that constantly stands in 



this : ^999-9 for maintaining peace by powder and the way of carrying out admirable ideas such as 



shot — ;£ooo.i for maintaining peace by combating that put forward last month by Sir E. Cornwall, the 



the malevolent campaign of falsehood and for pro- Chairman of the London County Council, for the 



moting fraternal intercourse between the representa- annual meeting of an International Municipal Con- 



tives of the peoples. That, surely, is not too heavy gress. At present the hat has to be sent round 



a demand upon John Bull's purse. every time, and it often falls very heavily upon a 



few generous persons. The duty of international 



" Decimal point one " ought to be hospitality ought to be borne by the nation, and if 



Decimal the rallying cry of all the friends of this policy of making war against war and on the 



Point One. peace everywhere. President Roose- causes of war which spring largely in misunder- 



velt is said to have privately ex- standing were sedulously prosecuted year after year 



pressed himself very strongly in favour of the idea, with the resources of decimal point one per cent, at 



The late Colonel Hay approved of it. M. Rouvier its back, we should soon discover the absurdity and 



commended the idea when it was submitted to him, uselessness of much of our excessively bloated arma- 



and it is evident, if once the appropriation of deci- ments. It would be well if candidates everywhere 



mal point one per cent, of the Naval and Military could be induced to pledge themselves to this 



Budgets was adopted by one of the great Powers simple, obvious, and money-saving proposal. 



Next month's "Review of Reviews'" will contain a splendid article on 

 "JOHN BURNS OF BATTERSEA." 



The question of the treatment of the insane is just now attracting much attention, and next month we 



shall publish an article on the subject, under the title of 



" Australia's Unhappy Insane: Public Ignorance and Indifference." 

 By Dr. RAMSAY MAILER, of Melbourne, who is a recognised authority on mental diseases. 



Read Editorial on Page ii. 



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 Our Housing Problem. 

 Our Faerie Queen. 

 King Haakon of Norway. 

 Sir Henry Irving. 

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