20 APRIL 1901, page 18

Bolingbroke.*

" THE Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday," wrote Bolingbroke to Swift on August 3rd, 1714, " the Queen died on Sunday. What a world it is, and how does fortune banter us."......

The Peace Conference.*

THE Conference which met at the Hague in 1899 was not watched with great enthusiasm while in progress, and later events have tended to drive its mild pronouncements from • The......