. Review of reviews and world's work. e to be divided into eight com-munes and forty villages, and are to occupy The additional cost to the state for ad-ministration of the new province is estimated at$322,404, while the increase in the revenues isstated al $459,486, leaving a surplus annuallyof $137, Paying for the land, the farm-mer would become the owner in forty-five years. The project of draining the Zuyder Zee is atpresent in abeyance and forms no part of thepresent governments programme. For severalyears, the Dutch budget has shown steady deli-cits, rendering it impra
. Review of reviews and world's work. e to be divided into eight com-munes and forty villages, and are to occupy The additional cost to the state for ad-ministration of the new province is estimated at$322,404, while the increase in the revenues isstated al $459,486, leaving a surplus annuallyof $137, Paying for the land, the farm-mer would become the owner in forty-five years. The project of draining the Zuyder Zee is atpresent in abeyance and forms no part of thepresent governments programme. For severalyears, the Dutch budget has shown steady deli-cits, rendering it impracticable to undertake amore or less speculative venture not imperiouslydemanded, which would, as favorably interpreted by a majority of the commission, pledgethe State to an expenditure probably amountingto $2,500,000 a year for a period of sixteen yearsbefore returns, even as estimated by friendlyarithmeticians, could bring a dollar to the creditside of the ledger. And yet who can say thatthe Zuvder Zee will not one dav he drained ?. Professor Hugo MOnsterberg. Professor Albion W. Small. Professor Simon Newcomb. MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE ST. LOUIS CONGRESS. EDUCATIONAL WORTH OF THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. BY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. (President of Columbia University and a member of the administrative board of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences. I THAT great international expositions are toonumerous and too frequent is a complaintoften heard. Much may reasonably be urgedin favor of such a view. The enormous cost ofthese undertakings, the tendency to multiplythem for purely local purposes, the difficulty ofsecuring trained exposition administrators tomanage their details, and the heavy burden ofoft-recurring participation by the same nations,states, corporations, and individuals, all make it? al tie that international expositions on a greatscale he not organized oftener than once in adecade or two. On the other hand, it must beborne in mind that a very
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