17 AUGUST 1912, page 8

Weather And Politics.

T HE instability of mortal things has seldom come home to us more vividly than in the contrast between the summers of 1912 and 1911. Last year Englishmen were slowly learning to......

The Chinaman In Formosa.

" T T is difficult to describe the Chinese without caricaturing them." So says Mr. Campbell N. Moody, the author of a charming book, "The Saints of Formosa" (Oliphant, Anderson......