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The Review of Reviews. 



Mr. Lloyd George has done well to 



Two appoint two notable capable women 



Capable Women. ,„ assist in the administration of 



the Insurance Act. One is Mrs. 

 Creighlon, the widow of the late Bishop of London, 

 who is so well known for her ability that there is no 

 need to speak of her. The other is Miss Mona Wilson, 

 the daughter of one of the broadest-minded, clearest- 

 sighted clergymen in the Church of England — Canon 

 Wilson, formerly Vicar of Rochdale and Archdeacon 

 of Manchester. Miss Wilson has dedicated her life to 

 the study of industrial problems affecting women. She 



'Tis " vice alone will shelter wretchedness," and it is 

 vice alone that pays record rates to women. It is 

 usually regarded as unwomanly for women to hold 

 high-salaried posts. It is womanly to be a charwoman 

 at ten shillings a week. But to be a Commissioner with 

 a salary of £i.ooo — I can only repeat, it is monstrous ! 

 To all those false friends of peace 

 who have been crying out for 

 mediation between Italy and 

 Turkey I have constantly replied 

 that mediation would mean only one thing, and that 

 was advice to the Turks to submit to their invaders. 



The 

 War in Tripoli. 



Mrs. Creighton, Widow of Bishop Creighton. 



was a member of the Home Office " Departmental 

 Committee to inquire into Industrial Accidents." 

 Subsequently she was appointed to one of the Trade 

 Boards under the Board of Trade, in which capacity 

 .she was a potent factor in canvassing the chain- 

 making and the paper-board trades, and making the 

 labour exchanges of more practical use. As a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Commissioners she will receive a 

 salary of £\ .000. Monstrous ! Has any woman olT 

 the stage ever before been so well paid — unless for 

 being the complaisant mistress of some rich man ? 



Miss Mona Wilson. 



Russia is now making a second attempt to secure 

 concerted mediation, and as a matter of course we are 

 told that no mediation can be thought of that does 

 not start with a recognition of the annexation of 

 Tripoli and Cyrenaicaby Italy. Sir Edward Grey has 

 gone far, very much too far, in holding the candle to 

 the devil of lawless aggression in Tripoli; but for the 

 sake of his own record and the fair fame of our country 

 I hope he will shrink from the infamy of putting pres- 

 sure upon the Turks in order to induce them to abandon 

 the most Moslem provinces of their Empire to a 



