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The article presents several kinds of watercolor papers and offers advice on how to select the right one in terms of the medium and technique employed. Manufactured in Italy, France, and England, finest papers are named and letter coded as rough (R), hot pressed (HP), and cold pressed (CP). Weight of paper ranges from 50 to 300 pounds in a ream of 500 sheets, and as a rule, 70-pound paper or more is recommended for watercolor. Images of different kinds of paper with paint results are presented such as wet and dry techniques on a 54-pound rough paper.

This article focuses on the international relations between various countries. The Axis-Japan pact has been called everything from a bluff to the blueprint of a new totalitarian world order. In fact it is a typical Nazi maneuver, and so it combines some elements of both. But Hitler has always used failure as a stepping-stone for new advances, and while it is legitimate to take satisfaction at the stubborn courage which has ended the hope of an autumn invasion of England, wise observers will not discount the importance of Hitler's grandiose substitute scheme. The pact with Japan has been treated, of course, as a resounding diplomatic triumph, and no doubt it will be accepted as such by the bemused masses of Germany and Italy.

In England as well as in Italy the disparity between the conceptions of the better native statecraft and the will of world stock-exchange fewry it clear; indeed, sometimes it hits one in the eye. Only in France is there today more than even an inner unanimity between the plans of the Jew-controlled stock exchange and the desires of a chauvinistically oriented national statecraft. In this very identity lies an immense danger for Germany. Exactly for this reason France is, and remains, by far the most terrible enemy.

A remarkable sign of the growth of pacifist sentiment in England appears from the great victory won by Wilfred Wellock in the Stourbridge division by-election. This Labor candidate won his seat by a majority of 3,099 over his Conservative opponent. Dictator Benito Mussolini continues to play the old diplomatic role with considerable skill. To solidify Italy's control of Southeastern Europe and checkmate the ambitions of Jugoslavia, he signed in December-with the apparent connivance of Great Britain-a treaty with Albania which guaranteed the "independence" of Albania and established in power his tool, Ahmed Zogu, under Italian protection. Since then Mussolini has won Rumanian support.

The action taken by the Czechs, the French, and the British had the cumulative effect of staying Hitler's hand. But there are still two possibilities to be feared. One is that Germany may become convinced that the action of the three democratic powers on that day was after all only a colossal bluff, and that next time it must be called. The other is that Hitler, even if he is convinced that England and France are in dead earnest, may still invade Czechoslovakia and take the risk of a general war, especially if he has reason to believe that Italy will be on his side.

If only to recapture lost prestige in its colonial possessions England must win a war. But hat is not the sole reason. The conquest of Ethiopia has only whetted Mussolini's appetite. Both to England and to Italy control of the Mediterranean is important more as a means than as an end in itself. The Mediterranean has again become what it was in the Middle Ages, the center of the world developments in air transportation since the World War have greatly enhanced its importance. The air route from France and England to the Far East and India is over the Mediterranean.

Presents several real-life incidents described by the author. Requirement of tutor for the son of a lady going abroad for one year; Occupancy of the hotels of Italy by Germans; Recommendation of a tutor by friends of lady at the state university; Educational qualification of the tutor; Experience of a couple who had come from Palermo to see cloisters and duomo; Experience of the couple when they had to pay the bill for a bottle of wine hardly drunk, but opened; Dressing sense of a London, England-based lady; Ornaments worn by the lady;

When the Campanile fell in Venice last summer, a loud outcry of indignation was heard in London and Young Italy was warned that, if it could not preserve its own great monuments, the rest of the civilized world would have to step in and take them in charge. Mansions still survive here and there in the country to testify to the genius of architect Robert Adam. He is also to be studied in some of the spacious houses of Portland Place, familiar to every American who stops at the Laugham Hotel. Indeed, it is the growing extravagance in municipal government that is so discouraging. The Borough Councils, in the first flush of their new power, are even more reckless than the County Council.