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They compare favorably with any set of men I have ever seen both as regards ability and fidelity to duty." Under the operation of the Civil Service Act the proportion of Filipinos employed has increased from 49 per cent, in 1903, to 71 per cent in 1913, as is shown by the following table: Comparison of Percentages of Americans and Filipinos in the Service

He has just made a tour to Bath, Oxford, &c., and was everywhere received with much distinction. See ante, ii. 71. Boswell, when in London, was 'his constant guest. Ante, iii 35. Boswell's son James says that 'in 1785 Mr. Malone was shewn at Mr. Baldwin's printing-house a sheet of the Tour to the Hebrides which contained Johnson's character.

* Walker, p. 91, 93. * Walker, p. 29, 35, 49 Walker, p. 65. * Walker, p. 75, 82. Rush. vol. viii. p. 1323 Walker, p. 71. * See note S, at the end of the volume. It was evidently the interest, both of king and parliament, to finish their treaty with all expedition; and endeavor by their combined force to resist, if possible, the usurping fury of the army.

See the previous page for some equally prudent observations on the folly of teaching geography to little children. Emile, IV. 68. V. 231, etc. Emile, IV. 71. Emile, IV. 73. Emile, V. 22, 53, 54, 101, 128-132. Emile, V. 78.

Out of 178 kings, 71 were slain in battle, and 60 murdered. Christianity was brought to Ireland about the year 400, by St. Colman and St. Patrick.

The second of these bodies to affect a looked-for return was a comet the sixteenth within ten years discovered by Pons, July 20, 1812, and found by Encke to revolve in an elliptic orbit, with a period of nearly 71 years. It was not, however, until September 1, 1883, that Mr. Brooks caught its reappearance; it passed perihelion January 25, and was last seen June 2, 1884.

Oh shining angels! what, must we With you lift up our voice? We must; and with you ever be, And with you must rejoice. 69. Our friends that lived godly here, Shall there be found again; The wife, the child, and father dear, With others of our train. 70. Each one down to the foot in white, Fill'd to the brim with grace, Walking among the saints in light, With glad and joyful face. 71.

James Saumarez, afterwards the distinguished admiral, Lord de Saumarez, then a midshipman, before the ship was relieved from this grave disadvantage. Her loss was 40 killed and 71 wounded; not a man escaping of those stationed on the quarter-deck at the beginning of the action.

Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 71, et seq. Leyton to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 48. Let it not be thought that the papal party were worse than the other. The second confessor, if anything the more profligate of the two, gave his services to the king.

Great Britain and Ireland ................. 179,423 22.8 Germany ................................... 250,630 31.7 Scandinavia ............................... 105,326 13.3 Netherlands, France, Switzerland, etc. .... 27,795 3.5 Total Western Europe ...................... 71.3