13 MARCH 1909, page 9

The Permanent Adviser To The Nation.

I F Lord Esher's lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday Week has not presented Queen Victoria in any new light, it has strengthened in certain particulars the impression......

The, $ecrets Of ,central , Asia.

TT is the fashion to talk as though the age of exploration : were ended ; and the world in which we live war", ail mapped and surveyed and its waters plumbed. Yet in a souse the......