Review of reviews and world's work . o draw their salariesfor from ten to twenty year- in advance. Education has generally I Degeneracy . ? . of the at a low ebb in Portugal. Re-People liable statistics indicate that lessthan one-fifth of the population can read andwrite. The country, which has an area -ome-what less than thatof the Stateof Indiana, anda population approximately equal to that olIllinois, has always been engaged in agricul-ture. The people, who once were the worldsgreatest navigators, have lost, during thepast two centuries, the energy which formerlycharacterized them. Their ag
Review of reviews and world's work . o draw their salariesfor from ten to twenty year- in advance. Education has generally I Degeneracy . ? . of the at a low ebb in Portugal. Re-People liable statistics indicate that lessthan one-fifth of the population can read andwrite. The country, which has an area -ome-what less than thatof the Stateof Indiana, anda population approximately equal to that olIllinois, has always been engaged in agricul-ture. The people, who once were the worldsgreatest navigators, have lost, during thepast two centuries, the energy which formerlycharacterized them. Their agricultural andcommercial method- are very antiquThis state of affair-, together with the politi-cal corruption and lack of education alreadyalluded to. has resulted in appalling govern-mental mismanagement and a chronic even the riche- of Portugals colonialpossessions, which cover more than three quar-ters of a million square miles and have a pop-ulation of more than nine million-, couldoffset the corruption at M \M EL IN HNiINi. \! : . ung monarch deposed last month from the Portu-guese throne is a healthy, sport-loving lad. He will notrN of age till November THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 541 - . On Feb. i. 1908. it will be remem-the bered. King Carlos I and his Causes ^^ ^^ prince Luiz phillip, were shot down in the streets of the is a significant indication of the strengthof the revolutionary movement, even at thattime, that the government considered it un-safe to prosecute the conspirators. ManuelII succeeded to the throne after the death ofhis father and elder brother. It was at firstthought that the manly traits he exhibited asa lad and the frank, open attitude he tooktoward his people at his coronation were in-dications that Manuel would make a goodmonarch. He has. however, shown manysigns of incapacity, and, if we are to believethe reports of the continental European press,had begun to develop the traits of personalimmorality that have characte
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