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Revivalists in the United States, Great, S. P. Cadman, Chaut.
Rome Fifty Years Ago, Philip Schaff, HomR.
Russia:

Russia and England, Canon MacColl, CR.
Moscow in 1893, R. G. Burton, WR.

The Young Czar and His Advisers, Charles E. Smith, NAR.
Rubinstein, Anton, Adolph Kohut, Men.

Sabbath Reform, Practical, W. F. Crafts, OD, Nov.
Sabbaths and Weeks, On the Origin of, A. B. Ellis, PS.

Salvation Army, Social Anarchists and the, Joseph Cook, OD,
Nov.

Salvation Army Work in the Slums, Maud Ballington Booth,
Scrib.

Saghalin, Island of, ScotGM, Dec.

Sailors in Port, Commander Dawson, SunH.

St. Andrews and Andrew Lang, M. L. Addis, FrL.
Schiller and His Works, GT.

School Board of London:

Future of Religious Education in the School Boards, RC.
The Struggle for Healthy Schools, J. J. Davies, WR.
Schoolroom Ventilation as an Investment, G. H. Knight, PS.
Sea-Wall at Key West, Construction of a, J. A. Smith, JAES,
Nov.

Secularism: The New Secularism, Walter Walsh, CR.
Servant Question: Do Servants Marry? CFM.

Shakespeare:

Shakespeare and Puritanism, W. Hales, CR.
Shakespeare's Piscine Lore, C. Cordley, GM.

Shakespeare's Flower Language, Phil Robinson, MP.
Shakespeare's Americanisms, Henry Cabot Lodge, Harp.
Sharpshooters of the Alps, HC.

Sherman's Great March, W. Hemstreet, HC.
Shipping:

Shall We Have Free Ships? Edward Kemble, NAR.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, J. A. Froude,
Long.

Shipping and Shipbuilding in California, Evolution of—I,
OM.

Shopping, Ethics of, Lady Jeune, FR.

Shorthand: See contents of Sten; SJ.

Shrine, A Tuscan, Edith Wharton, Scrib.

Simplon Hospice in Winter, C.

Sinai, E. N. Buxton, NC.

Singapore, The City of: In the Golden Chersonese, R. Wildman, OM.

Sirius in Ancient Times, T. J. J. See, PAst.

Skepticism: Wanted, a New Skepticism, S. Dewey, WR.
Ski, A. Conan Doyle, Str, Dec.

Slave-Traders, New York, Thomas A. Janvier, Harp.

Social Purity: The Problem of Purity, W. S. Lilly, NewR.
Society, The Inertness of, M. H. Richards, LuthQ.
Sociological Field Work, S. M. Lindsay, AAPS.
Spain: The Romance of Spain, C. W. Wood, Arg.
Sport:

The Hunters of the North Pacific, M. R. Davies, Mac.
A Day with Xenophon's Harriers, Mac.
Stevenson, Robert Louis:

In Memoriam-Robert Louis Stevenson, William Archer,
NewR.
Stevenson's Books, S. R. Crockett, Bkman.
In Memoriam-R. L. Stevenson, Ian Maclaren," Bkman.
Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Small, Scots.
Robert Louis Stevenson, D, Jan. 1.
Supernatural, Natural and, B. P. Bowne, MR.
Star Chamber, The Court of-XI, J. D. Lindsay, GB.
Synagogue in Bevis Marks, F. Montefiore, Str.
Taste, Good, Augustine Birrell, Scrib.
Tatra Mountains, E. L. Gerard, M.

Taxation:

Is the Income Tax Constitutional? D. A. Wells, F.
An Argument for the Single Tax, I. Feinberg, AMC.
Telegraph Cables: The World's Cables, Moses P. Handy,
NSR.

Telegraph: The Nerves of the World, J. Munro, LH.
Telepathy, Experimental, T. E. Allen, A.

Telescope, Pleasures of the, Garrett P. Serviss, PS.
Tenement Street, The Anatomy of a, A. F. Sanborn, F.
Tennyson, Lord:

Tennyson at Aldworth, F. G. Kitton, GM.

Tennyson's Handwriting, J. H. Schooling, Str, Dec.

Tennyson and Holmes: A Parallel, Helen M. Sweeney, CW.
Thanet, Octave, at Home, Mary J. Reid, MidM.
Theatre and the Drama:

The Theatrical Season in New York, J. S. Metcalf, Cos.
The Drama in Semitic Literature, D. B. Macdonald, BW.

Theosophy, Max Müller's, R. F. Sample, Hom R.

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Gilbert Parker, Lipp.

Trusts, Abuses and Remedies, Jerome Dowd, AAPS.
Tuscan Shrine, A. Edith Wharton, Scrib.

Tunis:

Elizabeth A. Sharp, Ata.

Through Northern Tunisia, W. Sharp, GW.

Turkey, Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid of, CR.

University Extension Lay Lectures, E. E. Edwards, UE, Dec.

Virtue, The Teleology of, Walter Smith, IJE.

Wales The Church in Wales, Black.

Weeks and Sabbaths, On the Origin of, A. B. Ellis, PS.
Wellington, Duke of, Lord Roberts, PMM.
Westminster, Walter Besant, PMM.

West Point, Cadet Life at, B. F. McManus, G.

Whist, Black.

Wind Instruments, The Story of Brass, E. O. Heyler, Mus.
Winthrop's Reminiscences, AM.

Women:

Why New Zealand Women Got the Franchise, WR.
A Defense of the Modern Girl, WR.

Women Under Islam, NC.

Fair Women-II, Lena M. Copper, G.

The Hindu Woman, B Nagarkar, Mid M.

Concerning Nagging Women, Cyrus Edson, NAR.

Writing Materials of Olden Days, Tighe Hopkins, LA.
Yorkshire: Charlotte Brontë's Country, Ata.
Yucatan, Alice D. Le Plongeon, FrL.

Zola, Emile, WR.

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Perpetuating the Memory of Putnam

French Affairs..........

The Late M. de Giers..

The Absolutism of Nicholas..

Crispi and His King..

Three Englishmen of Note..

The American Obituary Record

George Peabody.

Quabang's Awakened Pride of History..

With portraits of Capt. Von Goessel, Capt. Baudelon, August Belmont, Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, George S. Morrison, Col. Craighill, E. A. Abbey, George E. Waring, Jr., the late Marshal Canrobert, M. Ribot, the late M. de Giers, Rev. A. J. Gordon, Prof. J. R. Seeley, Rev. Henry M. Taylor, Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, Douglas Putnam, and illustrations of the steamer La Gascogne, City Halls of Vienna and Philadelphia, New Boston Public Library, the Putnam House at Rutland, Mass., and Rufus Pu nam's houses at North Brookfield, Mass., and Marietta, Ohio.

Dr. Pusey the Ascetic...

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A Graduation Budget..

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Politics and the Farmer.

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The New Remedy for Diphtheria..

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The Outlook for Decorative Art in America..

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Municipal Cleansing...

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Where Shall Americans Study Art?..

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The Paris Exhibition of 1900..

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The Evolution of Orchestral Conductors

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Mr. Steinway's Recollections of Rubinstein..
Recollections of Steve: son..

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Stevenson and His Samoans.

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How Marion Crawford Became Famous..
How Stanley Weyman Writes Romance.
Mr. Froude as Man of Letters..
The Grimm Brothers...
Reminiscences of Dickens.
Realism versus Romance..

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Record of Current Events....

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Dr. McCosh as a College Lecturer.
The Mongol Triad.

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With portraits of Charles A. Gayarré, Dr. Cyrus Falconer, Hon. Isaac Pusey Gray, Prof. Arthur Cayley, and Mr. George Clausen, A.R.A.

The Architecture of Municipal Buildings.
Fighting the Locusts in Cyprus..

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Councils of Women..

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The United States Geological Survey.
The Dutch Prototype of Tammany.
Life Aboard an Ocean Flyer.....
Concerning Our Cooks and Dinners..
How to Buy a Horse...

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THE MEETING OF BURNS AND SCOTT IN SCIENNES HOUSE, EDINBURGH, THE RESIDENCE OF PROFESSOR

ADAM FERGUSSON.

From the painting by Mr. C. M. Hardie, exhibited in the Royal Academy 1895

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

VOL. XI.

NEW YORK, MARCH, 1895.

No. 3

A Cold Winter and Its Victims.

THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD.

The months of January and February, 1895, will be memorable for the severity and wide extent of their storms, which took the form of great cyclonic disturbances accompanied by heavy snowfall and by almost unprecedentedly low temperature. Earlier storms had spoiled the prospect of the orange crop in Florida, and the later visitations of King Boreas completed the work. The "balmy" resorts of the South-European as well as American-have for once known something of the rigors of a northern winter, without being equipped with northern means of protection. In certain portions of the West the suffering from long weeks of extreme cold and of heavy snow has been the more intense on account of the failure of the last season's crops, and the consequent lack of means to buy sufficient supplies of winter clothing, fuel and food. The precise truth regarding the amount of suffering in western Kansas, western Nebraska, and parts of the Dakotas, has been hard to obtain. Suffice it to say, we are assured that those states deem themselves entirely able to cope with their own local emergencies and to provide adequate relief. In Kansas and Nebraska, if not in other western states, the immediate demands for relief have been met by gifts from all directions. Georgia and other parts of the South responded with quick sympathy to the reports that food was needed in the sparsely settled counties of Nebraska. Chancellor Canfield, of the Nebraska State University, has informed the country that Nebraska as a whole is in no stricken condition, that the state has a vast area, and that the suffering on account of last season's drouth has been confined to a few counties which are very scantily inhabited and whose people are for the most part recent comers from the East. Seed grain will be provided in the spring through the agency of the state and county governments. Fortunately, the industrial conditions in our great population centres are much improved in comparison with last year, and while public and private charity has a heavy task devolving upon it, there is no such appalling demand for emergency relief as existed one year ago. It has been a good winter for the experiment of helping one's poorer neighbors in the items of fuel and rent. The plan may be safely continued in March.

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ful. Only one boat availed anything for rescue purposes. Twenty people by means of this boat reached the British coast in safety, only one of these being a woman, and nearly all of them being members of the ship's crew. Although harsh criticisms have been called out by the fact that seamen rather than passengers escaped, it should be remembered that practically the whole force of officers and sailors went down with the brave captain. It does not appear from the testimony of survivors that Captain Von Goessel came short of his duty in the few moments that remained after the collision, or that the sacrifice of the few that escaped would necessarily have resulted in the saving of any other lives.

Collisions and

the Road.

If the collision had taken place in a dense the Rules of fog it would have seemed nevertheless to have been avoidable with the proper use of sirens, fog-horns, and fog-bells, and with the reduction of speed that prudence always requires when lights are not clearly visible. But this accident seems unquestionably to have occurred when there were no exceptional conditions of fog or storm, and when each of the colliding vessels must have been perfectly aware of the approach of the other. So far as now appears, the accident was solely due to a misunderstanding as to the rights of the road, or to an unwillingness on the part of one navigator to alter his course for the accommodation of the other. The facts as to these matters must all come out in the admiralty courts in connection with suits at law for the recovery of damages. It happens that a new treaty which has been signed by the United States and a number of the principal European countries,-although not yet signed by Great Britain,-goes into effect on the first day of March, and deals with signaling at sea and with many matters affecting what may be called the rights and usages of the road. In view, however, of the frightful object lesson presented by the loss of the Elbe it is evident that public opinion will demand a more exacting code than has ever yet been devised, in order to reduce to the lowest possible minimum the chances of collision at sea.

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gers involved in stormy weather at sea are no longer considered by experienced navigators as particularly formidable, in the case of well-built modern ships. The experience of La Gascogne of the French line has given a fresh illustration of the staunchness of the typical transatlantic liner. La Gascogne left her French port on January 26 and was due at New York on February 3. Owing to the exceptional storms which had prevailed, her tardiness excited little anxiety for two or three days. But her protracted failure to put in an appearance, and the lack of any information about her from vessels which in going one way or the other might have been expected to sight her, at length created a feeling of uneasiness that grew more intense from day to day and from hour to hour. Finally, however, on the afternoon of February 11, La Gascogne came slowly within signaling distance of Sandy Hook, and a few hours later was safe in the shelter of New York Bay. The enthusiasm in New York over her arrival surpassed all precedents. She had broken an essential part of her machinery of propulsion, and her engineers had experienced great difficulty in maintaining a sufficient state of repair to enable the engines to

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