Which do you consider the half-dozen most important and significant events in the history of the world in 1905? Ditto in the history of the United States for 1905? Who were the ten or twelve greatest statesmen in the South during the Reconstruction Period? Dividing the history of the United States from 1860 to 1905, into epochs, what periods would you name? Does not Roosevelt’s administration mark a new period or epoch? Yours truly, ⸺ ⸺. ANSWER (1) To answer with any fulness would require more space than we can now spare. The Code Napoleon follows, in a general way, the Roman Civil Law, while most State Codes in the United States are founded upon the Common Law of England. (2) The war between Russia and Japan; the separation of Norway and Sweden; the defeat of Clericalism in France; the quasi-alliance between Great Britain and France; the overthrow of the Tory ministry in England and the appointment of a Labor Agitator as a member of the Cabinet; the “butting in” of the German Emperor in Moroccan affairs; the labor and peasant revolutionary movements in Russia. (3) The Hearst campaign in New York City; the Roosevelt peace; the Life Insurance revelations; the Lawson articles on Frenzied Finance; the President’s declaration for Federal regulation of railways; the set-back to political Bossism in the State and City elections last Fall; the establishment of this Magazine. (4) Zebulon Vance of North Carolina; George G. Vest of Missouri; L. Q. C. Lamar of Miss., John. T. Morgan of Ala., Benj. H. Hill of Ga.; James Z. George of Miss.; Roger Q. Mills of Tex.; James B. Beck of Ky. (5) The War Period is a distinct epoch; the Reconstruction Period is another, and this period may be said to have ended when President Hayes withdrew the troops from the South. The election of a so-called Democrat (Cleveland) over a Republican (Blaine) may also be said to have marked the advent of another epoch. The McKinley-Mark Hanna dispensation was also an epoch and will take its place in history as the high-water mark of class-legislation, Trust making and rotten politics. Yes; Roosevelt seems to be making himself an epoch—just what sort of one neither he nor anybody else seems to know. * * * * * _Hon. Thomas E. Watson_, DEAR SIR: Would you kindly inform me through your Educational Department: Whether there has been adopted by any nation the 8 hour law? And what change would have to be made in our Constitution to put such a law into effect in this country? Thanking you in advance for the desired information. Respectfully, ⸺ ⸺. ANSWER