EDITORIALS 

 LEADING ARTICLES IN THE REVIEW 



One of our esteemed readers, who happens to have the ability 

 to write those "sensible abusive letters" which have heretofore 

 been credited with improving The Review, wants to know why 

 the managing editor does not always place the real "leading" 

 article first in the monthly issues. The reply to him may interest 

 others w^ho wonder why the article which appeals to them as 

 strong is printed second or third instead of first. 



The truth is that the managing editor has never attempted to 

 arrange the articles in the order of merit. As a rule the first 

 article is one which has been planned in advance for a certain 

 number. Others equally good, or even better, may come after 

 the printer has begun work on an issue and, follov/ing the rule to 

 publish papers as soon as possible, we try to work in many papers 

 received at the eleventh hour. If you want to read the real 

 "leading" article in The Review, you must read all the lo-point 

 type, and then the one which pleases you best is the leading 

 article. Our arrangement of articles, particularly the use of 

 black-faced type for headings, important sub-divisions, and 

 notes, and with not more than forty pages, makes it impossible 

 that anything important should be overlooked. 



INDEX TO VOLUME II 



Many inquiries show that the index bound with the February 

 issue has been overlooked. One subscriber writes that he can- 

 not imagine a more stupid place for that index than where it is 

 located and that he cannot imagine how any one could be dense 

 enough to have bound it in Number 2 of Volume III. With 

 this comment the managing editor agrees heartily and it exactly 

 expresses the sentiment which he transmitted to the printers 

 whose carelessness caused the absurd blunder. The orders 

 given on the proof and also in a letter were that it should be 

 inserted hut not bound in the February issue. However, the pages 

 can easily be removed and pasted in the last number of Vol. II. 



