1 FEBRUARY 1908, page 11

National Decadence.

I N the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture which he delivered at Newnham College last Saturday Mr. Balfour speculated very thoughtfully, if purposely without much con- fidence or......

Sea-lavender.

O N the rim of France, where the Channel widens south- ward, there is a long strip of salt-marsh, reclaimed from the water less by the hand of man than by the action of time and......