14 OCTOBER 1899, Page 23

A Beautiful World (John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson), the October

issue of the journal of the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising, reports most encouragingly on the pro- gress of the movement. The most notable event in the last six months is undoubtedly the success of the municipal authorities of Edinburgh in securing the sanction of Parliament for a Private Bill conferring powers analogous to those which the Society desires to confer generally on all similar bodies. The Town Clerk of Edinburgh, Mr. Hunter, narrates the history of this episode on pp. 1243, and the advertisement provisions of the Edinburgh Act are set forth on pp. 19 20. Other interesting and encouraging incidents recorded in the "Retrospect of Events" are the successful issue of the crusade against the sandwich-girls, the conference at the House of Commons in June, and the heroic 1111 action of the North-Eastern Railway in banishing advertise- ments from some of its country stations.