tries, and we think there are very few Canadians who do not prefer the British constitution to that of the United States. We know that Great Britain has domestic troubles of her own, but they are neither more numerous nor more serious than the domestic problems that confront our neighbors. No prominent citizen of the United States would have the assurance to suggest that Great Britain should assume the servile rôle that is assigned her by a harebrained British journalist. However, Mr. W. T. Stead speaks only for himself, and we are perhaps giving too much importance to his vaporings. We believe in maintaining the harmony of the two branches of the English-speaking people as far as this can be done consistently with our own self-respect and national integrity. Such harmony is possible without the sacrifice of its nationality by any state or country. Great Britain is to-day doing noble work in the federation of the empire. She is engaged in the formation of a constitution that will permit of a federation between differently-constituted and widely-separated countries and peoples. This constitution might easily be made wide enough to include the United States, but the inclusion of the United States is by no means an essential of Anglo-Saxon unity. It is difficult enough to devise a constitution that will cover the federation of the different parts of the British empire. Much more difficult would be the drawing up of a constitution that would provide for the amalgamation of Great Britain and the United

States. The English-speaking peoples of the world may, and probably will, finally be welded together in some way, but the Briton who suggests that the union should be effected by the effacement of Great Britain is a contemptible poltroon. The United States would demand no such price. Great Britain would never consent to pay it."

This editorial is not exactly complimentary to Mr. Stead, a man who is doing a real service in ventilating this important question. The idea that England's taking a place suitable to her population and resources would be playing a "servile rôle” is excessively ridiculous. So is the Bayeux-tapestry line of argument about throwing the thousand years of history into the scale, as a factor in comparative national importance. But these absurdities are superficial. The article thoroughly recognizes the importance of intimate alliance and essential union between England and America. The monarchical principle is not expressly mentioned. as an essential of government, and the reference to the comparative merits of constitutions probably alludes to the turmoil of direct presidential elections rather than to the essential principle of republicanism. Moreover, the reference to the unbiased position of Canadians on constitutional matters, being interpreted, means that the regal, or at least the aristocratic, principle is weak in Canada. What else can it mean? The principle of imperial federation within the British empire is here advocated, and I, for my part, should

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welcome such a federation, both as good in itself and as opening the way for a more comprehensive union. should hope that India would be given some representation, though not, of course, proportionate to the number of her population. In the United States the federative principle already exists, and exists on a large scale. Here is one point in which the United States is ahead of the British empire, notwithstanding the latter's thousand tried years of history. Here the more aged empire is imitating the younger, What is to become of the English monarchy in the event of a re-constitution of the Anglo-Saxon unity is a very delicate and embarrassing question; but the time will come when it will be dealt with in a proper spirit. It will be settled in accordance with the necessities of the times, and with the concurrence of all parties in the State. I should think that if the Anglo-Saxon unity were re-constituted, the monarchy would have to be confined to the British islands, and the outlying portions of the empire would become republican. The monarchy of England is regarded as an institution insuring stability to the State and as a bulwark against social upheaval and political unrest. The recoil from the experience of the Wars of the Roses strengthened the monarchy. The recoil from the experiences of the great civil war of the seventeenth century strengthened it again. Republicanism became odious to the majority of Englishmen, and became a dead issue in the political world of

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England. This feeling survived as late as the time of Burke, who, though a Whig and an advocate of American rights, and a great admirer of the literary works of Milton, nevertheless regarded Cromwell as a sort of monster of iniquity. His contemporary, Adam Smith, mentions Cromwell by the respectful title of "The Protector." It was not, however, till the time of Carlyle and Macaulay that Cromwell's moral influence was resuscitated. Now his statue stands before the Parliament House at Westminster. Cromwell, indeed, was not precisely a republican, he represents the ciple. The English Conservatives are strongly, the Liberals less strongly, attached to the principle of monarchy. But history does not move backward. It is evident that if all the Anglo-Saxon peoples become welded, the republican principle will predominate, and that the center of gravity of the Anglo-Saxon world will be Washington rather than London. I presume that the doctrine of the Toronto World, that the motives for alliance and union are equally strong between Britain and America, is to be taken as a serious opinion. It is, I think, an erroneous opinion. The territory of the United States is, for the most part, very compact. The British territories are very scattered, and England itself is unpleasantly near the continent of Europe. Hence, great as the advantages of union would be to the United States, they would be still greater to Britain.

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AKEWOOD is the ideal American

village of the purely residential type; a suburb of New York removed sixty miles away for considerations of change of scene and restfulness; a winter resort of health, sport, and social charms. What an oasis is to the desert, Lakewood is to the New Jersey forest of oak and pine that surrounds it. Here, nestling on the shore of a picturesque lake, deep in the heart of the primeval woods, is a modern colony of gigantic and luxurious hotels and romantic Queen Anne cottages, all equipped with every modern convenience for contributing to the physical comfort and

social well-being of the sojourners in this delightful retreat.

The poet that longed for "a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade," could here satisfy himself in an imperial manner, for he would have all the solitude, or all the society, he could possibly desire, according to the appetite of the moment, without the labor of going a step to seek either. And as for sport, every form is indulged in except baseball, which is voted as too common and too physically exhausting a game for the luxurious habitués of Lakewood.

For eight calendar months, from

October to June, Lakewood is the winter resort of people of leisure and wealth. Why winter resort? it may be asked, and why Lakewood? Assuredly there is a cause for every effect in the universe, and the raison d'être of the charming retreat is as follows:

The demands of business life upon the modern American have become so great a strain, so exhausting to those who work their brains and lead a sedentary existence, that the summer vacation no longer suffices to restore the harmony of mind and body so essential to health. Consequently, a winter vacation is also necessary. Now, if one can obtain a change of scene and physical recreation in a perfectly healthy environment during the winter months, there will be an exodus of tired humanity to that particular spot. And if the particular place of resort is within a distance that can be traversed twice a day, and which will permit one to attend to business in the city, if necessary, the resort will be doubly popular on this account.

Lakewood, by virtue of its extreme healthfulness and restfulness, and by reason of its accessibility to two great cities, has become the most popular winter resort within its distance from the metropolis. It is only sixty miles from New York and seventy miles from Philadelphia, distances covered by the express trains in less than an hour and a half's time, making it virtually a residential suburb of both these cities.

But Lakewood's healthfulness is a still greater factor in its prosperity.

The soil is of porous sand and gravel, which renders the air very dry and pure. There are absolutely no swamps nor malaria. The all-surrounding forest imparts to the air a delightful balsamic fragrance, and the temperature usually is several degrees warmer than that of New York City. While Lakewood is not advertised as a sanitarium, so as not to invite thither a multitude of ailing people, it is nevertheless one of the healthiest places in the country, and the combination of pure air, dry soil, and abundant sunlight, gives every opportunity for out-of-door recreation, the most curative agent in all ailments that permit of such recreations being indulged in. It may be thought that the cold of winter in a northern latitude is inimical to outof-door sports, but climate is very much as it is regarded, and where the conditions permit of out-of-door exercise, irrespective of temperature, it soon becomes the fashion to live in the open air.

One great essential of winter sports anywhere is the fundamental condition of warm and luxurious homes. The hotels in Lakewood are models of comfort and luxury. Architecturally speaking, they are magnificent structures in the Georgian or Colonial style, modified in some cases with the French Renaissance. There are four or five of palatial dimensions, and all are replete with reception-rooms, ballrooms, ladies' parlors, reading- and writing-rooms, billiard-rooms, diningrooms, smoking-rooms, cafés, bookstalls, brokers' offices, telegraph and telephone connections, and so forth.

heavy, soft carpets, cozy chairs and couches, the environment being one of hushed and luxurious repose.

One of the larger hotels has added. to its other appointments an equipment for the practice of hydrotherapy, as it has been demonstrated that the water cure, when modified according to particular needs, is particularly efficacious for all forms of nervous troubles. The outfit consists of hot-air baths combined with horizontal and ascending douches, rain bath, needle bath, and so forth, regulated with scientific accuracy by an elaborate mechanical device as to temperature, diffusion, and pressure.

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enviable reputation among the frequenters of the world's best resorts. It is very roomy and thoroughly comfortable, while lacking in none of the luxurious appointments of firstclass hotels in general. The public rooms are large and beautiful and its chambers and bath suites fully up to modern demands. has the usual ménage of billiardroom, reading-room, smoking-room, and so on, but its special attraction is the wide sun galleries that surround two-thirds of the building, and these apartments are luxurious in appointment and warmed with steam heat and open fires. The cui