1 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 22

The Manitoba Department of Education celebrated Empire Day. on May

23rd last, by issuing a neat little pamphlet, to be read in the schools, explaining why Empire Day is set apart to mark and impress on our minds the character, extent, and significance of' the Empire to which we belong." and giving a short and inter. eating history of the Dominion during its first half-century. We commend the example to British- Education Authorities.