For INUCA 10 AUTERVISEKS, see pages n. and i. and GENERAL CONTENTS IN DEX, page XV. THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE INSURANCE FOR THE WEALTHY. £116,000 was recently paid by a Leading Merchant for an Investment Policy in this Company. Send for Prospectus. COMPANY OF Investment advantages of the Company's Endowment NEW Leading Bankers and Merchants are availing themselves of the Policy with Life Option. Accumulated Funds exceed, £30,600,000 BANKERS-BANK OF ENGLAND. YORK. ! Bonuses Paid in 1890, £575,748; an increase over the amount Paid in Bonuses in 1889 of £98,899. The BONUSES declared on the Company's Whole Life New Distribution Policies of only Five Years' standing range from £1 19s. 1d. to £3 12s. 7d. per cent. per annum, according to age. ACTUAL RESULTS. A LARGE BONUS. ORDINARY POLICIES. The Bonuses declared on the Company's Whole Life New Distribution Policies of only five years' standing range from £1 19s. 1d. to £3 12s. 7d. per cent. per annum, according to age. The Company have recently forwarded to the holder of policy No. 278,127 a cheque for £1,099 13s. 6d, in payment of the cash value of the Bonus for 1891, the pol cy being for £10,000, and issued in 1886, on the five year distribution plan. This return is equal to an annual cash bonus of £2 48. Od. per cent. Many of these policies are reaching the bonus period with results very gratifying to the Insured. The New Six per Cent. Consol Policy now being issued by the to whom a good investment may be of more moment than Life Insurance. Head Office for the United Kingdom : 17 & 18. CORNHILL. LONDON. E.C.-D. C. HALDEMAN, General Manager, GOLD PENS: The total payments to Policyholders to December, 1890, amounted to £63,469,822, of which upwards of £16,500,000 were bonus paymentsmore than twice the amount of Bonuses paid by any other Company. Company is specially devised to meet the requirements of people of means, This Policy meets both requirements. PENS: MABIE, TODD & BARD'S Manufacture, are 14 carat tempered gold, very handsome, and positively unaffected by any kind of ink. They are pointed with selected polished iridium. The Encyclo. Brit.' says: Iridium is a nearly white metal of high specific gravity, it is almost indestructible, a beautifully polished surface can be obtained upon it." They will not penetrate the paper. Writer's cramp is unknown among users of Gold Pens: One will outwear go gross of steel pens. A choice is offered from 250 various shapes and points. They are a perfect revelation to those who know nothing about Gold Pens. DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has used one of Mabie, Todd & Co's. Gold Pens since 1857, and is using the same one (his "old friend") to-day; it cost him only 9/6, it would have cost him, in money alone, over £10 to have done the same work with steel pens. "SWAN" FOUNTAIN MAGIE TODD BARD NEW YORK The "Swan" is a Mabie, Todd & Co. Gold Pen joined to a rubber reservoir to hold any kind of ink, which it supplies to the writing point in a continuous flow. It will hold ink enough for two days' constant work, or a week ordinary writing, and can be refilled with as little trouble as to wind a watch. With the cover over the gold nib it is carried in the pocket like a pencil, to be used anywhere. A purchaser may try a pen a few days, and, if by chance the writing point does not suit his hand, exchange it for another without charge, or have his money returned if wanted. Illustrated Price List, of various sizes (with testimonials), will be sent gratis and post free: Address postal card to MABIE, TODD & BARD, 93 CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. THE "SWIFT" WRITING INKS ARE OF GUARANTEED PURITY AND EXCELLENCE. PROPOSED AUSTRALIAN EDITION OF THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS." SOME LETTERS FROM THE GOVERNORS AND NOTABLES OF AUSTRALASIA. ¿HE project of publishing an Australian Edition of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS is passing from the stage of ideas into that of realisation. The hearty welcome assured me, in advance, by representative men of all shades of political faith and social position, encourages me to believe that the REVIEW, when Australianised, will fill a useful rôle in the new Commonwealth. It ought not to be necessary to say, what, nevertheless, to judge from some comments, it seems needful to remark, that the proposed Australianising of the REVIEW marks no insidious Imperial design. If I have an Australian Edition, I must have an Australian editor, as I have an American editor at New York; and if, as I hope and expect, I get hold of the right man, he will have a free hand so long as he keeps within the broad lines laid down for the direction of the REVIEW. The body of the REVIEW will remain unchanged. The Australianisation will be effected, not by altering what is sent out from England, but by supplementing and completing it. I print with pleasure the following letters from the Australian Governors and others, some of whose portraits appear on the adjoining pages : SIR HENRY W. NORMAN. 28th July, 1891. Dear Sir, I receive your REVIEW OF REVIEWS regularly through my London newsagents, and shall be glad to see your proposal to have an Australian Edition carried out. I have no doubt the work will be much appreciated in these Colonies. The success of the publication will, of course, greatly depend on the ability of the local editor; but I think you will have no difficulty in obtaining the services of a very capable man for the work in any of the great cities of Australia. Believe me, yours faithfully, H. W. NORMAN. LORD ONSLOW. Government House, Wellington, N.Z., Sir, I have taken in the REVIEW OF REVIEWS ever since the first copy was brought under my notice. I am inclined to think that your proposal to issue an Australian Edition will be gladly welcomed here. Incomes are smaller, clubs fewer, and the opportunities for reading the vast quantity of contemporary literature now published, scantier than in England; yet Colonial politicians are desirous of and succeed in being as well au courant of what is going on all over the world as many at Westminster. The Eclectic has a long-established popularity in New Zealand, showing that the principle of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS is one which commends itself to Colonial readers. I am, your obedient servant, LORD KINTORE. ONSLOW. Government House, Adelaide, 14th July, 1891. Dear Sir,-Those of us who are living busy lives in the other hemisphere at the other side of the world have often cause to think with lively appreciation of the enterprise which originated the REVIEW OF REVIEWS, and of the ability which conducts it, by means of which we are brough within ready reach of the best thought of the world. It is pleasant to know that both at home and in America your work has met with such striking success, and it is indeed good news to learn that, in order still further to strengthen a tie uniting the English-speaking race the world over, you propose to establish an Australian Edition of your magazine, which, in addition to the usual contents of the REVIEW, will contain matter of special interest to Australians. May I, as one whose highest interest is for the welfare of the great country in which I am living, offer you my sympathy and promise of support in your undertaking? I am, yours very faithfully, KINTORE. LORD JERSEY. Government House, Sydney. 20th July, 1891. Dear Sir,-Your proposal to start an Australian edition of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS I hail with much pleasure. In its present form it is more extensively read out of England than perhaps you are aware of, and I feel sure that the carefully selected addition of subjects of special Australian interest will add greatly to its popularity and its consequent usefulness. Your magazine is a great boon to those who, like myself, are far away from England, as supplying a connecting link which keeps us in touch with the thought and action of our race throughout the world. Any publication which does this tends to promote a good understanding between all sections of the British race. I certainly hope that you will carry out your proposal, and I wish it all success. I am, yours faithfully, JERSEY. SIR R. G. C. HAMILTON. Dear Mr. Stead,-I am glad to find that you intend to issue an Australian Edition of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS. From my own observation, and from what I hear on all sides, I am not at all surprised to hear that its present circulation in Australia should exceed that of any other English review. You will largely increase this by having an Australian Edition, and I wish the project every success. I know of no better way than by a wide circulation of a periodical like the REVIEW OF REVIEWS to secure that English-speaking people in one part of the world should be made conversant with the work and thoughts of Englishspeaking people in all other parts of it. This must bring about a better understanding between them. It must show them how widely spread and general the community of interest among them is, and suggest directions in which common action can be taken to advance the general good. Every step in this direction must bind them closer together, and CARDINAL MORAN, Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney. spects, and its wide circulation that your enterprise has laid ho extensive circle of readers. I v to your new project of an A Edition of the REVIEW, and a faithfully, WM. SZ. Sy Bishopsbourne, Br My dear Sir,-Your letter of of June duly arrived, but I h long away from headquarters different parts of my enormous I send you, by book post, the which you ask, and some papers to my diocese, which may inte Your REVIEW OF REVIEWS i widely circulated in this Co diocese, and will, with the Australian matter which you incorporate into it, doubtless a yet more remarkable circulatio ing you all success in your en am, very truly yours, W. T. BE CARDINAL MORAN St. Mary's Cathedral, Sir,-In common with all t of polite literature. I will be cement that friendship and alliance between them which I firmly believe is destined, in process of time, to unite them in a Federation which will secure the peace and progress of the world.Yours faithfully, R. G. C. HAMILTON. SIR GEO. GREY. House of Representatives, N.Z. Dear Mr. Stead,-I was very glad to receive your letter; I had long wished to be in communication with you. We have many points in common, and your advocacy of views in which we agree would be a matter of great consequence to myself and those who are working with me. THE BISHOP OF TASMANIA. speech made recently upon the subject of federation, but I hope in a few months to be in England, and thus able to explain the matter more fully to you. The publication of an Australian edition of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS would be a great boon to this part of the world. We look eagerly for the receipt of the English edition, and should look still more eagerly for an edition belonging to ourselves. It would be a great stimulant to Australian intellect, which is not small.-Truly yours, G. GREY. EPISCOPAL FRIENDS. Bishopscourt, Sydney, Dear Sir,-Your REVIEW OF REVIEWS I send you by this mail a copy of a has proved a great success in many re THE BISHOP OF BRIS publication of an Australia the REVIEW OF REVIEWS, : fident that so long as it lightenment and champio of true Christian progress, i to receive its due meed of uccess.-I remain your fait PATRICK FRANCIS CA Archbp. of Syd Our portraits of Australasi been taken from photographs Sir Henry W. Norman, by B the Earl of Kintore, by Bond, of Onslow, by Wrigglesworth and 1 N.Z.; the Earl of Jersey. by the Archbishop of Sydney by Ch the Bishop of Brisbane, by Neu the Bish p of Tasmania by A Cardinal Moran. by Mitchell. Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, by nessy and Co., Melbourne. |