12 MAY 1917, Page 3

While dealing with abstract Republicanism, which, by the way, meets

with very scant sympathy in the great democratic overseas Dominions, we should like to call attention to certain very penetrating words of Burke. Burke in one of his speeches or writings says : " I do not often quote my Lord Bolingbroke, but I agree with him when he says that he prefers a monarchy to a republic because it is more oily to engraft the advantages of is republic upon a monarchy than to engraft the advantages of a monarchy upon a republic."