29 JUNE 1912, page 5

The Cult Of Incompetence.* "the People Is Admirably...

choose those to whom it has to entrust some part of its authority." This is a celebrated dictum of Monteequieu, and its refutation forms the main theme of M. Emile Faguet's......

Sir Edward Law.* If Ever There Was A Briton Of

our own time whom; life's history deserved to be put on record surely it was the adven- turous Irishman, best known to his contemporaries as Financial Member of the Viceroy's......