16 MAY 1896, page 9

The Formidableness Of England.

W E wonder if Englishmen ever fully realise how their Empire must appear in the eyes of its European rivals. We think they do not, for if they did they would be less surprised......

The British Civil Service.

M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the annual dinner of the Civil Service drew attention to the extraordinary success with which this country has solved the problem of combining a system......