9 APRIL 1898, page 6

America's Chief Want.

W HAT America wants most is a highly-trained per- manent Civil Service,—a band of expert servants of the State whose knowledge and experience shall always be at the call of the......

An Empire In Catalepsy.

W E see that Mr. Balfour is sneered at for his " philosophical " remarks upon the spectacle presented by China ; but surely that spectacle is of the highest interest to every......