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grown in a wonderful way since the Queen ascended the throne. Last year it reached the enormous figure of ��620,000,000, but the capitalist, the manufacturer, the merchant and the workingman were not officially in the procession to get their large share of the resulting glory. Great Britain has added to her real estate an average of 165 miles of territory per day for the past sixty years, which is to say she has added more than the bulk of an England proper each year, or an aggregate of seventy Englands in the sixty years. But Cecil Rhodes was not in the procession; the chartered company was absent from it. Nobody was there to collect their share of the glory due for their formidable contributions to the Imperial estate. Even Dr. Jamieson was out, and yet he tried so hard to accumulate territory. Eleven colonial Premiers were in the procession, but the dean of the order, the Imperial Premier, was not; nor the Lord Chief Justice of England; nor the Speaker of the House. The bulk of the religious strength of England dissent was not officially represented in the religious ceremonies at the Cathedral. That immense new industry, speculative expansion, was not represented, unless the pathetic shade of Barnato rode invisible in the pageant. It was a memorable display, and must live in history. It suggested material glories of the reign finely and adequately. The absence of the chief creators of them was perhaps not a serious disadvantage. One could supply the vacancies by imagination and thus fill out the HYLAND 24