29 JUNE 1912, page 4

The Cult Of Incompetence.* "the People Is Admirably...

choose those to whom it has to entrust some part of its authority." This is a celebrated dictum of Monteequieu, and its refutation forms the main theme of M. Emile Faguet's......

Books.

THE RUSSELLS OF BIRMINGHAM.* Ix the last quarter of the eighteenth century Birmingham and its neighbourhood enjoyed a society of rare culture and distinction. Without exhausting......