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The Review of Reviews. 



The Peiil in the Air. 

 Photograph taken from an aeroplane of the Great Fleet at Spithead. 



action of the London County 

 Council in safeguarding from 

 obscenity and intemperance the 

 amusements of the people. Still 

 more popular has been the visit 

 of their Majesties to the West 

 Riding. The Royal pair in- 

 spected some half-dozen of the 

 principal industries of Yorkshire, 

 and showed keen interest in seeing 

 their humblest subjects at work. 

 The most dramatic incident was 

 something like half a million- It is interest- at Elsecar Colliery, where the King 

 ing to recall the fact that in the Naval himself went down the pit, walked 

 Debates in the House of Commons every along its galleries, interviewed the miners 

 speaker adopted the standpoint that the at work, took a pick into his own Royal 

 British Navy was the greatest force for the hands, antl worked with it for a while. We 

 peace of the world. Nothing could be are reminded by this incident that when 

 more excellent than that the idea of this working his way up in the Navy, the King 

 country's duty as policemen of peace should shrank from no task, however disagreeable, 

 be more widely accepted and should form His experience in a Yorkshire coal mine 

 the basis of all discussions of policy. has, it appears, made him realise the 



July has been a busy difference in the kinds of coal hewn, and 

 The Monarch month for His Majesty, consequently understand the claim for 

 the Miners. ^^^^ visits to Newmarket differential wage. The terrible explosion 

 and Henley, as also to the which occurred during the Royal visit at 

 restored Winchester Cathedral, and the the Cadeby Pit, and which caused over 

 Windsor garden party with 7,000 guests, thirty deaths, led to a visit of sympathy 

 were quite in the line of traditional Royal from the King and Queen, and deepened 

 functions. So was the opening of the the conviction of the people that the Royal 

 Immingham Dock near Grimsby, with its heart goes out to them not merely in their 

 forty-five acres of water space and 5,400 work but also in their sorrows. The 

 feet of quays, laid out at a cost of nearly poi)ular reception seems to have exceeded 

 three millions sterling— one of the triumphs even the traditional warmth of a Yorkshire 

 of modern enterprise. But the presence welcome, 

 of King and Queen at a command per- 

 formance in the Palace Theatre is the ^'■■- Asquith 

 first Royal endorsement of the music-hall 

 as a legitimate element in the national 

 life. For the recognised arrival of this cent welcome which the Irish people ac- 

 form of popular recreation thanks are corded to Mr. Asquith on the i8th and 

 very largely due to the so-called J'uritanic lyth of last month. The occasion was 



in 

 Ireland. 



The cause of Home Rule 

 and of good-will within the 

 Empire has been greatly 

 advanced bv the maonltl- 



