created a mixed impression of severe skepticism on the part of ethnological authorities and profound curiosity on the part of the public. Since the investigation, however, the scientists have retracted their first statement of disbelief and the White Indians have been for the most part acknowledged to be members of a people numbering a thousand or more individuals inhabiting the jungle and mountain fastnesses of Darien, Colombia. Mr. Marsh kept a diary of the expedition and it will be the privilege of the WORLD'S WORK to record in early issues this truly remarkable voyage and, though at the time of publication Mr. Marsh will again have started upon another argosy to Colombia, the articles will be fully illustrated with photographs secured by him upon the scene of his first significant findings.

Some months ago Merle Lavoy, a photographer-explorer, whose inclinations lead him up and down and roundabout the longitudes and latitudes as ordinary souls tread sidewalks, turned up in Australia. It came to his ears that in Queensland there was gem-mining, not organized or highly efficient in method, but run on the lines of purely individual effort. Thither he went, first to the sapphire fields and then to the opal mines of Lightning Ridge and perceived a life which, if hard, was idyllic in its simplicity and in its utter and blessed lack of complication, and if not always productive in gems, strikingly so in genial experience

of life.

The miners of Queensland are under orders from no one but themselves. They work when and as they please and dispose of their wares with a magnificent disregard of business convention and the red-tape beloved of some merchants. The best claim in the district, they say, is the saloon, but in spite of this mild local jest the entire community is guarded over by a solitary officer of police, and the crimes begotten of liquor or greed walk seldom abroad. The miners themselves are characters not unlike the stones

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varieties whose operations are distinctly beneficent. Vernon Kellogg, a naturalist of sufficient distinction to need no introduction, writes in the next issue of the WORLD'S WORK of both kinds, good and bad, and points out that immigration restrictions applying to bugs are quite as necessary as those which apply to the westward faring peoples of southern Europe.

A writer for the WORLD'S WORK recently mentioned the engineering achievement of the Woolworth Building in New York City. Mr. Cass Gilbert, the architect, calls attention to the fact that we failed to give credit to consulting engineers Mr. Gunvald Aus, Mr. Kort Berle, and Mr. F. S. Holtzman.

the vote that even his opponents conceded him. Though the title of Mr. Sullivan's article recalls faintly another title, one that a Napoleonic Marshal of France affixed, after the restoration, to his memoirs and whose portent was "Looking Towards St. Helena," there is no reason to believe that a parallel might exist between the two warrior subjects.

Chester H. Rowell will continue in the next issue his series of articles on governmental reforms that are sorely needed in the United States. French Strother will contribute the third article of his series on eugenics intended as a sequel to the earlier "The Cause of Crime."

Arnold Bennett is of course primarily known to us as a novelist, and as such the creator of those sometimes depressing and sometimes invigorating characters who went their ways in the "Five Towns" of monochromatic memory. In this issue of the WORLD'S WORK, however, Mr. Bennett descants upon a subject that has been furtively haunting the backs of our minds since the rise, some ten years ago, of that late colossal symbol, Nicholas Lenine. Radicalism in Europe, though the phrase sounds in some conservative ears like the rumble of distant tumbrils, may be not what it seems to many people in this country, whose values of life are cast all in solidly cubistic guise, so that, as death may be all black, radicalism may be all red. Arnold Bennett, living at Europe's front door, possesses greater facilities for gauging.

N HIS messages and in his Chicago speeches, President Coolidge lays chief emphasis on domestic issues. Yet it is already apparent that the most important work of the next four years will be concerned with foreign policy. The rapidly improving state of the farmer will inevitably simplify the agricultural problem, and the rebuke administered in the election, even by the agricultural states themselves, to the discordant elements in both political parties, will give Congress more time to concern itself with the pressing questions presented by our foreign relations. Reduced

taxation, its distribution in ways most likely to loose the purse-strings of the rich, economy in expenditures, reorganization of the Federal departments-these are probably the most important of the domestic issues before Congress.

Many questions are looming in foreign relations, however, which cannot be much longer postponed. In a measure President Coolidge has officially recognized this. One of his most noteworthy declarations is found in his recent Chicago speech. "I am profoundly impressed with the fact," he said, "that the structure of modern society is essentially a

unity, destined to stand or fall as such." Again, "We cannot hope indefinitely to maintain our country as a specially favored community, an isle of contentment, lifted above the general level of the average of the standards of humanity."

These statements might well be taken as the "keynote" of his new administration. As a formal Presidential announcement of a more intimate participation in the affairs of Europe, as a sign that the much discussed but long deferred "continuous foreign policy" is at last to be instituted, these sentences are not to be taken too seriously. They sound a helpful note, however, and, used by a President so careful of weighing his words as Mr. Coolidge, are full of meaning.

For these reasons the resignation of Mr. Hughes is deplorable. Viewed from the standpoint of accomplishment, his administration must be regarded as one of the most successful since the Civil War. That Mr. Hughes, despite his personally expressed desire for American membership in the League, had not accomplished this miracle, is a patent fact, yet in four years he had succeeded in establishing a foreign policy. His problem, which he handled with a skill that is widely recog