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departmental journal. The reader will find many articles of great interest 

 and some of high, scientific and practical value. We owe more than one 

 to the skilful pen of Mr. Hyatt Verrill an American visitor. Mr. Verrill, 

 who is not himself a scientist, is the son of the late Professor of 

 Zoology at Yale and is alwa3 T s interesting. We will not profess to judge 

 the merits of his cheerful excursions into the field of professional 

 anthropologists. His blood be on his own head. We owe him many 

 thanks for some interesting and valuable illustrations. 



We have reproduced in an appendix from the Journal of the Society 

 of Comparative Legislation, Mr. Ledlie's article on the alteration of our 

 law from Roman-Dutch to English and on the West Indian Court 

 of Appeal. Mr. Ledlie will be interested to know that the change has 

 been effected without question and almost unnoticed. Although eighteen 

 months have passed no difficulties caused by it have occupied the attention 

 of the courts and no amending legislation has been proposed. 



The War. 

 As I write* the colony realizes that the German onslaughts of the 

 future may shake anrl bend but cannot break the allied line from the 

 North Sea to the Atlantic. It realizes that time is on the side of 

 human liberty and British honour and that when the hour of Foch's 

 strategic offensive arrives the result will be one as to which we can have 

 no fear. This colony, deprived by geography of the chance of making 

 its full contribution to the cause of the Empire, maintains its willingness 

 to share its fate, to the last man and dollar, and looks with proud 

 confidence to the victorious end. 



" Yes — on our brows we feel the breath 



Of Dawn, though in the night we wait ! 



An arrow is in the heart of death ; 



A God is at the doors of Fate. 



The spirit that moved upon the deep 



Is moving through the minds of men ; 



The nations feel it in their sleep 



A change has touched their dreams again. 



Dreams are they? But ye cannot slay them 

 Or thrust the dawn back for one hour ! 

 Truth, Love and Justice, if ye stay them, 

 Return with more than earthly power. 

 Strive, if ye will, to seal the fountains 

 That send the spring through leaf and spray ; 

 Drive back the sun from the Eastern mountains, 

 Then — bid this mightier movement stay. 



* Note. — Written in June at a time when the recapture of the line of the A ism 

 to be relegated to the Spring of 19111 . The beautiful li&eaoi Sir Alfred N'ujts stun still more 

 appropriate as we go to press in this first week in August. 



