Editorials.

The article gives information about various socio-political issues related to different parts of the world. A research paper was read by Professor Charles William Eliot before the Social Science Association at Philadelphia, on "The Relations of Business Men to National Legislation," which is, especially at this moment, deserving of more attention than it is likely to receive as merely a part of the discussions of a society commanding unfortunately but a limited share of public attention. In judging of the expediency of the persistence of the Germans in prosecuting the war, after the French have suffered what every military man knows and acknowledges to be irremediable defeat, people have no right to consider the conflict now raging as having been begun in July last.