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Presents several letters to the editor regarding different previously published article and various international socio-political developments and issues. Praise for an article, by William S. Kies, on foreign investments after the War; Comments on the insufficiency of the data on college administration, presented by this journal's correspondent, R.D. Miller; Information regarding imperialistic democracy in Japan.

An interesting article published in the Nation of February 14, 1918 recalls to attention the career of Félicité de la Menais, that unhappy champion of Liberty under the standard of Obedience. Naturally, a man who spent his time trying to reconcile these principles found so much to do that only a little could be crowded into, a single article. After the suppression of L'Avenir in 1831 and the unsuccessful pilgrimage to Rome, Lamennais retired with a few followers to a secluded house in his native Brittany, which had been the place of his youthful studies with his brother. M. de Marzan, in his reminiscences of poet Maurice de Guérin believes that, in spite of these epistolary eulogies, there was a certain aloofness between Lamennais and his pupil; that the latter's intuitively poetic nature, incapacity for rigorous thought, and restiveness under rule prevented his feeling perfectly at ease.

Presents letters to the editor referencing topics covered in previous issues. Plea for executive clemency for Ricardo Flores and Librado Rivera, two Mexicans who are imprisoned in the U.S. for spoken or written words under wartime legislation; Method of setting the French debt accounted in paper against the country's property estimated in gold; Search for material for a study of the life and works of Howard Pyle.