LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY

(LIMITED)

St. Dunstan's bouse

FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.

1898

LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

(The rights of translation and of reproduction

are

reserred)

CONTENTS OF VOL. XLIII

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THE WAR OFFICE AND ITS SHAM ARMY:

(1) By Colonel Brookfield

(2) By Major Rasch

(3) By Major-Gen. Frank Russ-11

By Lord Alwyne Compton .

Do we NEED AN ARMY FOR Home Defence ?' By Major-Gen. Sir Edmund

Du Cane

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A RECRUITING SERGEANTS SUGGESTIONS. By Arthur V. Palmer

A WALK THROUGH DESERTED LONDON. By Sir Algernon West,

PARISA LIFE IN ENGLAND BEFORE THE GREAT PILLAGE. By Dr. Jessopp 47, 431

THE CHILDHOOD AND School Days of Byron. By Rowland E. Prothero .

AT A TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. By Professor Michael Foster .

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THE PRISONERS OF THE Gods. By W. B. Yeats

91

ARTHUR Hugh CLOUGH: A SKETCH. By Thomas Arnold

The HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN RUSSIA By Prince88 Kropotkin

117

Is THE LIBERAL PARTY IN COLLAPSE ? By the Rev. Dr. J. Guinness Rogers 135

THE PARTITION OF CHINA. By Holt S. Hallett

154

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FROM PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY AND MR.

HERBERT PAUL

165

Barking Hall: A YEAR AFTER. Bj Algernon Charles Swinburne :

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ENGLAND AT WAR. By Frederick Greenwood

*. 171

The EXPANSION OF GERMANY. By Henry Birchenough

182

GERmax versus BRITISH TRADE IN THE East. By Clavell Tripp

THE QUAINT SIDE OF PARLIAMENT. By Michael MacDonagh

197

LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. By Miss I. A. Taylor .

214

FRENCH OFFICIALISM. By the Count de Calonne

230

THE FUTURE OF THE ANGLO-AFGHAN ALLIANCE. By Rafiuddin Ahmad 241

THE PERMANENT PACIFICATION OF THE INDIAN FRONTIER. By Major G. J.

Younghusband .

MORE ABOUT SHERIDAN. By 'W. Fraser Rae

Tue Native PRESS IN INDIA. By G. M. Chesney

266

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL AND To-day. By Andrew Carnegie

277

Sir John LUBBOCK ON THE 'FINANCIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION :' A REPLY.

By the Earl of Mayo.

284

CAPTAIN MAHAN'S COUNSELS TO THE UNITED STATES. By Lieut.-Col. Sir

George Sydenham Clarke

292

DANTE AND PAGANISM. By D. R. Fearon

301

The Real GRIEVANCES OF THE UITLANDERS. By Sir Henry Meysey-

Thompson

312

Great BRITAIN's OPPORTUNITY IN China. By C. Å. Moreing

LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM SIR JOHN C. WILLOUGHBY

ENGLAND AT WAR'-A SUPPLEMENT: BY AN OLD TORY

T. E. Kebbel

337

THE ARMY AND THE GOVERNMENT'S OPPORTUNITY. By H. O. Arnold-

Forster.

THE NAVY AND THE ENGINEERING DISPUTE. ' By Archibald S. Hurà

A BRIEF NOTE ON THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER Policy. By Lord Napier

of Magdala

371

Millais's WORKS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. By Claude Phillips

THE METHODS OF THE INQUISITION. By W. Š. Lilly

THE SHORT STORY. By Frederick Wedmore

WHITE SLAVES : A TRUE TALE. By the Countess of Jersey

417

SPECIMEN OF A TRANSLATION OF THE GEORGICS IN BLANK VERSE. By Lord

Burghclere

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