IS INVASION POSSIBLE? By Major-General Frank S. Russell OUR MILITARY WEAKNESS. By Colonel the Earl of Erroll INHERITANCE AND SOCIOLOGY. By W. C. D. Whetham COURT AND SOCIETY AT BERLIN IN THE 'FIFTIES: A REMINISCENCE. A GERMAN VIEW OF THE ANGLO-GERMAN PROBLEM. By C. S. Goldman. THE FUTURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL TURKEY. By Professor A. Vambéry. THE MAKING OR MARRING OF THINGS MILITARY. By Lieut. Colonel THE DEFAMERS OF SHAKESPEARE. I. By Sir Edward Sullivan THE MISSING ESSENTIALS IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE. By W. H. Mallock. SOME SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS A SOLUTION OF THE EDUCATION PROBLEM. EDWARD FITZ-GERALD: A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE. By Mary Eleanor A LESSON FROM AUSTRALIA. By Senator E. Pulsford. TRADITION VERSUS ENQUIRY IN IRISH HISTORY. By Mrs. John Richard CALIGULA'S GALLEYS IN THE LAKE OF NEMI. By St. Clair Baddeley HOW WE CAME to be censoreD BY THE STATE. By Gertrude Kingston. IRELAND IN EXTREMIS.' By Ian Malcolm THE NAVAL SITUATION. By Sir William H. White THE UNIONIST PARTY AND ITS FISCAL SORE. By Lord Hugh Cecil FORTY-FOUR YEARS AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE. By Sir William Baillie THE GREAT INQUEST. By J. A. R. Marriott THE DEFAMERS OF SHAKESPEARE. By Sir Edward Sullivan SIX GERMAN OPINIONS ON THE NAVAL SITUATION. By Eneas O'Neill. WILLIAM BECKFORD'S ADVENTURE IN DIPLOMACY: AN UNPUBLISHED THE AERIAL PERIL. By Captain T. G. Tulloch DECENTRALISATION OF GOVERNMENT IN INDIA. By Sir Arundel Arundel. THE MISSING ESSENTIALS IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE. II. By W. H. IRELAND AND THE BUDGET. By T. M. Kettle STATE FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN LONDON. POOR RELIEF IN THE DAYS TO COME. By Edith Sellers WHAT EVERY GERMAN KNOWS. By Austin Harrison THE UNIFICATION' OF SOUTH AFRICA. By Sir Walter Peace A GLANCE AT A WAR HORIZON. By Major-General Sir W. G. Knox Colonel Lonsdale Hale MR. BIRRELL'S IRISH LAND BILL. By the Right Hon. Sir Horace THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC-HOUSE. By Edwyn Barclay HENRY VIII AND THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES OF LONDon. By the Rev. In the number of this Review for May 1905 the writer called attention to a speech made a short time previously by the Prime Minister of the day regarding the immunity of this country from invasion, and also ventured to question the reliability of the figures and reports on which the War Minister and Committee of Defence based their conclusions, which were conveyed to the public by Mr. Balfour in the speech referred to. After the lapse of over three years it would appear not out of place to quote the following passage from an address delivered by Lord Rosebery at a distribution of prizes in Edinburgh on the 4th of December last. When speaking of the possibility of invasion he said: Now there is one point which, I believe, in the opinion of experts, has undoubtedly been made in this connection. It is, I believe, generally admitted that the figures on which Mr. Balfour relied in working out his famous speech in 1905, which ended in the conclusion that we were completely safe against any such invasion, I believe it is now admitted that these figures are obsolete and untrustworthy. Unhappily the various speeches on this subject at this period, as prompted by the Committee of National Defence, had lamentable |