Editorials.

The article presents information related to social and political issues of the world. A painful feature of news from Portugal is the wholesale expulsion of monks and nuns. That a strong anti-clerical feeling had long existed in the country was well known. Even the Ministry of King had its recent clash with the Vatican. It is comforting to hear that the rising generation of French-men cannot write their native tongue decently. One had supposed that slovenly writing was confined to people in the U.S. and in an offhand way had attributed it to the great influx of broken English to its shores. But the defect is apparently much more widespread and its cause lies deeper down.