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THE sAND-DE MUssET LETTERS.

The story. as we piece IT together from the
letters, is amazing. From beginning to end, IL
is the who plays the part of the man;
IL is not for nothing that the enamoured Aired
addresses his idol mon George. His George
in fact, not only plotted but carried out the
elopement and in so doing proved an uneS-
pected courage and determination. The first
In the drama has an air OF strangeneSs
which belongs only to the truth. One evening.
In December, 1888. a cab drew up outside a GER
tain house in the Rue de Grenelle, Il house
which none who knows the story can pass
without reconstitutng the scene In his minds
eye. Within the cab prim little lady in a
prim little bonnet, who had come to ask OF
Mime de Musset permission to carry her son
to Italy The permission was granted. with
result which might have been foreseen. Be
tween two egoists fierce as George Sand and
Alfred de Musset. agreement was impossible.
Neither would surrender a iot OF independence
caprice to the other: and after an interval
Of crises and hysteria de Mussct returned TO
Paris and champagne, while George sand
sought what consolation might he found IN the
serious attentions of DR.. PaEe!lo.- George
whitley. In Blackwood's Magazine.
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THE KISS BYRONIC.

The specific gravity. SO to speak. OF the By
ronic kiss is considerable Its natural place is
on the lower levels OF feeling but when IL
casionally attempts to soar above them its
flight suggests cherub that has been drenched
in n thunder shower.
Even in his kiss tragic the emotion seems
stilted:
She rosc-she sprung. she chung to his embrace
Till his heart heaved beneath her hidden face
He dared raise to his that deep blue eye.
Which dOwncaSt drooued in fearless agony
Her long fair hair lay floating DER his arms
In all the wildness of dishevelPd charms:
Scarce beat that bosom where his image dwell,
So fuE-that feeling seem'd almost unfeltf
Hark-peals the thunder Of the stgnai-g
II told twas sunset-and he cursed that sun
Again-ag ain-that form he madly pressed
Which mutely claspd. imploringly caressdi
And tottering to the couch his bride he bore.
One moment gazed-as if to gaze no more;
Felt that for him earth held but her alone.
Kissed her cold forehead-turnd-Ls Conrad gonef
Tragedy broods heavily over this farewell en-
brace OF the Corsair and Medora. but the en-
brace itself Is curiously lacking in life and spon-
taneity and instead of the roar of the bursting
storm. one seems to hear the wheels go round
Norman Pearson, In Fertnightiy REVIEW
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JAPAN's PEACEFUL POLICY.

One part OF the role that Japan looks to play
in the future is shown in Interview with
Baron Kaneko Kentaro In America He said:
Japan must be the big salesman and the
middleman for trade the limits OF which can
not be at present appreciated by Americans.
They Will learn more OF its possibilities before
the present war is ended, and when il Is ended
whether to Japan's advantage to her disad-
vantage. there will be rush OF commerce to
the Far East quite unprecedented In the history
Of the trade of the world. And America which
Is TO have the lions share of this trade, cannot
handle 1t to advantage without japanese assist
ance."
What is true of America is also true OF the
other countries of the world. Just az Hong
Kong has in the past become the distributing
centre for foreign trade In the Far East so
Japan will be the agency through which foreign
countries will do business In the Far East Not
that Japan does not expect to ultimately obtain
n large share of the trade for herself but until
she is able TO supply the whole demand she Is
ready to act as middieman for others This is
q policy which Is based upon sound common
sense, and which will do much to bring into the
country the wealth necessary for national de-
velopment, and later secure for Japan a premier
place In the trading nations OF the world
To be a successful middleman II In absolutely
necessary to be on good terms with all nations
which Is another argument In favor OF the pur-
Buance OF a peaceful policy by Japan. But the
greatest of all reasons, from her point Of view,
b that Japan has realized the necessity Of the
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HAMLET'S MALADY.

The tragedy OF Hamlet Is that n man Of n Pc
culiar retrospective temperament is called upon
to settle n practical crisis. Hamlet knew this
very well himself. and that makes the tragedy
deeper Brutus never doubted. when once his
decision taken, that he was the right man
to cure the evils of Rome: Hamlet doubted from
tle very beginning
The times OF Joint, o cursed spite
That ever / WAS born to set them right
He was too fine too distinguished. too intel
lectual a character 10 BE- the rough instrument
which fate demanded He has the fatal maIady
of analysing his own motives. which is generally
destructive OF action. II you once begin asking
yourself what will be the results and conse-
quences OF a definite act. you viii find that nj
the moment OF action your viii is paralyzed by
excess OF scrupulosity. AS Hamets was. when
with his drawn sword he his uncle praying.
1t was disease OF will from which Hamlet
suffering. In any other times II would not have
been fatal. In this particular time. when he
was called upon to do n specific act. TO avenge
his father and kill the usurper. II is not he but
"A rather OF the Fortinbras build. who will
be the savior OF society. Observe. too. that, like
many intellectual men, ne cannot be sure OF hts
moods. He sees the ghost OF his murdered
father but is ii an honest ghost. IS IL really his
fathers spirit? Hamlet believes In II on the
battiementS OF EIsinOre; but he entirely dSbc
iieves il in another mood. when, despite the evil
dences OF his senses he talks of the bourne
from which no traveller returns" The traveller
who had returned is dismissed apparently
fantasy of his brain. And these supernatural
visitings in such analytic and interpretive
mind do not, as matter of fact. supply him
with the motive for his subsequent action. The
ghost can make him put on an antic disposition.
play with such creatures as Rosencrantz and
Cuildenstern. deride the seniIe humorings OF Po-
lOnius, and lessen the torrent OF his words
against his mother But what the ghost cannot
do Is to make him kill his uncle He murders
him at last, more or less accidentally. because
his mother was poisoned and Laertes had played
foul in the fencing bout So curiously destruc-
tive of strong practical Voliton is an intellectual
malady when II has grown morbid-the tendency
toward introspeCton, self-analyss. metaphys-
cal speculauon-(W. L. Courtenay. In National
Review.
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FEATs OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

One of the finest achievements OF war cor
respondent was that of Holt White. a repre-
sentative of The New-York Tribune. IN the
Franco Prussian War. He witnessed the battle
of Sedan from the Prussian headquarters on
Thursday. September 1. 1870 At its conclusion
he rode to Brussels. but there the postoffice au-
London. and even threatened to arrest him for
saying that the French had been defeated. lie
then went on to Calais. crossed to Dover by
special steamer and took special train 20
London where he arrived at o'clock on Sat
urday morning. Next day there was u descrlp-
ton of the battle. six columns long. in The
Tribune" 1t was not till Tuesday that the
London newspa perS had accounts OF the con-
nict from their correspondents. But the most
famous deed of physical endurance in the race
for news between war correspondents was toli
OF Archibald Forbes. In the SerVian War OF
1876 Semlin. the nearest telegraph station. was
40 miles distant from the scene of the battle
So soon as Forbes knew the result he rode OFT.
and all night long he kept at 4 gallop. chang
ing horses every fifteen miles. At Semln he
had one long drink of beer. and then at once
sat down TO the task OF writing. hour after
hour. against time. the tidingS OF which he was
the bearer. After he had written the story OF
the battle and put il on the wires he lay
down i'm his clothes and slept twenty hours
without waking He had witnessed the battle.
which lasted six hours ridden 10 miles, and
written and despatched teleGraphic message
four columns in length to THE Daily News.
al in the space OF thirty Observation-Disclosures
Magazine.
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vOLTAIRE AND BYNG.

Two years after he left Prussia George Keith
came TO visit him iii Switzerland. to plead the
cause of an English friend Byug The story OF
Byng Is familiar TO all his countrymen. The
French had beaten the English on the sea- and
mad with disappointed rage. the laundering
Ministry of England turned their iuckess in
strument, Byng. VOltaire the lifelong
friend of Richelieu, the conqueror But he was
too the man of whom ii was said that for
twenty years the redress OF judicial wrong
hung entirely on his pen. On December 20 1856.
he wrote to Rchelieu telling Byngs story And
that Va1nglortouS person replied generously
enough In an open letter. wherein he stated that
had Byng continued the fight the English fleet
must have been totally destroyed. and that the
adInirals misfortune came not from cowardice
or ineficicncy. but from the hand OF God and
the valor of the French.
Voltaire wrote to Byng, sending Richelieu's
letter. But he could not save the victim. Byng
paid the penalty of other mems folly. To Vol
taire he left grateful message and copy OF
his defence: and In "Candide,' with that ban
tering malice which Is his alone. Votaire sharply
satirizes the scene Of the admlrars execution
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JAPANESE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.

So divergent the opinions. among even
the hest Informed. as TO the form of government
best suited for Eastern races that it is in
tCreStinS and instructive briefly to examine the
methods employed by the Japanese Gin For
mos1J and the measure of success that has at
tended them. In general. their policy is based
on the assumption that. however aStute and
businesslike the Chinese may be, and however
estimablc in their private virtues they are. in
their civic capacity, mere children. and should
be treated such Their government there
fore. while it is absolutely firm and consistent.
is decidedly paternal. They at times over
bearing and arbitrary. but the whole they
are just In acquiring unsanitary properties
they give very inadequate compensation for the
surrender of private rights Though martial
law is uominally removed many OF its most irk
some provisions still enforced. Every
householder must be registered. doniciary Wis
it's frequent. and the absence OF any in
mates must be satisfactorily accounted for.
But the success Of any government must be
judged not much by the form OF its laws as
by their effect upon the subject, and the Chinese
In Formosa to-day thoroughly contented.
and have no desire to revert to the yoke OF their
own unprincipled ofIlcials-(Blackwood's Maya
zine.
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RAPID SPREAD OF PLANTS.

1t Is marvellous how rapidly some plants VIII
spread themselves over wide stretches of land
The writer struck with the way In which
the yellow charioCk took possession of the line
when the Neon Valley Railway was being made
a few years ago. The very next spring after the
entertainments were thrown up their sides were
clothed with this rampant and conspicuous
crucifer. A line of yellow across the country
marked I'm many places the course of the rail-
way. Poppies. too. for some unknown reason.
Will occasionally appear In strange and wonder
full profusion. The striking instance related by
Lord MaCaulay may be quoted by way of Illus
tration- After the battle of Landen the ground.
he tells us. during many months was StreWn
with skulls and bones Of men and horses. and
with fragments OF hats and shoes. saddles and
holsters The next summer. the soil. fortified
by twenty thousand corpSes broke forth into
millions OF poppies- The traveller who. the
road from Saint-Tron to Tfriemont saw that
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WITH A MACEDONIAN RELIEF PARTY.

Each days work brought some sad STORY or
picture OF it's own before us -FOUR HtIie sAiSs
whose parents had both been shot as they ueu
from their village; three otherS-rnere oaoieS
whom We found sitting round great pot IN
their smoky cabin their mother dead frOIn eN-
posure their father incurably i'll at the hospt-4'
a Young girl in deep distress. because her Weu-
ding clothes had been burned. and now no one
would want a portionlesS bride: the widow OF .
village priest, a woman with Wild hunted eyes
who had not slept since the bodies of her nus
mountains weeks before. and who. unable 10
rest even in our hospital. passed on 10 die fe"
DAYS later; haggard boys and girls, whose
wounds had remained undresSed some SIX or
seven months: men just out of the unspeakabie
prisons-"we could live there through inc
winter but had it been summer We must nave
died'-a village priest. crippled Tor NE anu SIN.
PROSTATE from the bastinado he had endured
three times some eight months before; an OH
father and mother who came every week on q
hopeless mission, a five hours journey. 10 ask
IL could give them tidngs yet of their deaf ana
dumb boy whom the soldiers were supposed 10
have carried away: sometimes young girls. Tor
whom one could only hope that fOrgetfulneSS or
death might come: and always tale OF WIDOWS
old and young to which there seemed no end
such were a few OF the cases that came TO US
for what help or comfort we could give An old
SON had been killed I'm the hurricane. speaking
of her loneliness. said To me, And when go TO
market now there Is only me and my shadow
But there is something more pathetic stiH, per-
haps I'm a phrase one heard often enough IN
Macedonia in answer to the question, How
many souls are your II sit alone-"-<Cornhil
Magazine
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RTSKIN AS AN ART CRITIC.

II IS probably by this time pretty generally
recognized that the debt that we owe to RuSklh
Is not primarily for what he did and sald ABOUT
art II was as n moralist and a Philosopher
that he was really great. OF course. When
man of high intellectual powers devotes large
portion of his life to the study of n subject, IL
is inevita BILE that his labors must possess GER
tain value We may even go further than that;
and say that when man of high intellectual
powers chooses TO write upon a subject, What
he writes must possess a certain value; out IL
is quite possible that the kernel of the nut may
be found in his digressioRs. or in light lnci-
dentaIIy thrown upon other matters. Ruskins
writings upon art possess very great value put
their value is not for what they tell us ai'nut
art but for what they tell us about Ruskin'
Every page of Modern Painters is worth read
ing not because its author was a great art
critic but because he was a great philosopher
and moralst No time is wasted which is spent
In the company OF the wise and good-Q" W.
Clarke IN Macnnfllan's Magazine
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SIR RICHARD BURTON.

To see Richard Burton at work was to see a
man absorbed in his occupation OF his long
tables like those employed at a Civil Service
examination. on these he would lay his DOCKS
of reference chiefly dictionaries and maps oil-
ting with his manuscript before him at one OF
the tables he would allow no reference TO pass
without verifcaton. He was exact to a de-
gree, and while unsparing in his criticism OF
others he was equally severe with himself
Being naturally of a quick and ardent tenn
permanent impatient of inaccuracy, and jealous
for the exact proportions of truth. he sometimes
seemed unduly irritable. but the irritation quick
ly passed if he were left alone Yet there were
occasions when the govt (his persistent and last
enerny) or the petty Interruptions of domestic
affairs or possibly the scarcity of money-not
infrequently accompanying so generous nature
produced a kind of cerebral storm. Then
Burton would pack up his portrnanteau. taking
with him some favorte author with whom 10
beguile the time. and drive of to the Opcina'
where in hotel at the summit of the hill he
escaped the discomforts of domestic life and the
smells of Trieste.-(Chambers's Journal
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o | dram to keep up ones spirits against the In

'f']''-
Justice of ones enemies.
Do not trust to your railroads. nor your tele-
graphs. nor your schools. as test of ciyfliza-
tion the real refinement OF nation Is to be
found i'm the justice of its ideas and the cour
teSy of its manners
The knowledge of the most value to us Is that
which we gain so insensibly and gradually as
not to perceive we have acquired it until its ef-
feet becomes visible in conduct.
The quiet of a city is the quiet that one most
appreciates for the sense OF quiet In the country
Is lost by want of contrast
You will never be trusted il you do more to
gain enemy than to serve a friend
You are not obliged to give your hand 10 any
one: but never give your finger.-(Nineteenth
Century.
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English Magazines for August.
ews of British Reviewers the Current Monthly
odicaIs
Periodicals.

drawing together of the world. and stands as
common idea OF individualiSm among nee ions.
1t has been recognized that in the future the
greatest successes are to fall to those who are
international in their conceptions and not in
sular and individual This spirit of internatOn-
alism breathes in every line of the Emperor's
speeches and can be traced in every page of
the history of Japan's foreign rclations-(A Alfred
Stead. n Fortnishtly Review.
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ITALIAN RAILWAY TRAINS

One of the worst and greatest drawbacks to
railway travel in Italy is the want OF accommo-
dation on many of the trains. and strangely
enough this applies to greater extent on long
distance trains than those made up for snort
Journeys We have no hesitation in saying that
for any party of four or five persons wishing 10
travel let us say from Rome to Naples (Six
hoursl and desiring TO sit together. 10 is neces-
sary to arrive at the station at least three
quarters of an hour before the time at which
the train is advertised to start Even then. We
say without exaggeratiOn that the thing Is no
certainty The use of a smoking carriage with
any degree of comfort is almost an imposs1bii
one NAV arrive alone in reasonable time for the
train only to find that the very few first class
smoking compartments have long ago oeen nlieo
with ladies and children. or more probably IN
valids We speak first class passenger
only. and so far "a We have observed the sec
ond class accommodation on Italian trains can
still less be recommended. The overcrowdins
and discomfort here are stretched TO their Ut
most limits while the third class carriage may
be dismissed in a few words This conveyance.
in the form of a cattle truck. is open TO all the
winds that blow and apearS to be used chleHy
for the transport OF troops The only slttihs
accommodation consists OF series or Derches
fitted crosswise at intervals of from two 70 three
feet while on the outside is indicated IN large
lettering the number of men which the authorl-
ties arr permitted to stow away-al very similar
10 our own railway trucks. upon any one or
which we may read the printed regulation as 10
weight of goods or number of animals "hlch IL
Is safe for this form of vehicle To carry
(ChamberS'S Journal.
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Because ne has not killed enough people; ne
fought with a French admiral and Is not con-
sidered to have been sufficiently near to him.
But" said Candde 1.-THE French admiral was
Just as far away from the English"
That is certainly true" was the answer
but in this country it is salutary to put an ad-
miraI to death and then pour encouraser
les autres "-(Cornhill Magazine.
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RUSSIA AND THE YELLOW PERIL.

So far there is yellow peril But Russia Is
doing her best unawares TO create IT, She Is CIV
ing proof positive that soldier. general admiral.
and the Emperor above them all one In spirit
and in aim. and that the war they wage Is be-
coming a of religions. II ia not Christ
against Buddha? Not the Christ OF Tolstoy or OF
Christians heavily laden with affiiction and long
Ing for a world In which the crooked things now
SO puZzling to the human mind will be made
straight The Christ symbOlized on the Cossack-
borne standard is the Christ of the Holy Synod
OF the imperial court. of PobedonoStseff. of the
jailers who hold political exiles I'm those ice
infernos, the tundras OF Siberia and the island
OF Sagallen. In short. II Is the Christ of Con-
Stantine brought down to about the date OF the
thirteenth century. This official Christ requires.
as the military commander in chief goes his
rounds OF inspection. the reverence OF Catholic
Poles. Finland and Lithuanian Protestants. Ar
menans and Jews under arms. wearing regt-
mental uniforms. Tcherkesses. Bouraits. Har-
tars-the latter mostly Mahometans-are kept
out OF the way of the white standard. There
used to be spirit of wide liberation In the Rus
sian government before Alexander I'LL The
prosecuting spirit then arose, and ii may not
have yet reached the climax.-(Contemporary
Review.
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GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS. II A

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS. T. A
Loved and rcycredi What more than this
OF sounding glory. silent bliss.
Would crave the nobly -nurtured Mind
That works To elevate mankind
70 seek the God within the shrine.
And In the human the DVine1-
That makes the bare blank canvas glow
with gorgeous pageant. palhd woe.
Rcqucatns TO after days tho grace
or maiden form or manly face;
SubicCjlng death 20 loves desire,
Shows sons how lived, how looked their siro,
And litnus with far transmitting hand
The features of the Mother Land
with vision rancifulIy fierce
Can through rough Quarried marble pieroA
And plunEing deep within IL, mako
A dreaming lovelincas TO wake.
And live, while common things wax old.
youthful glory 10 behold!
And such He whom you win End
Within this narrow Urn enshTned.
Approach and read 4 date. a name,
A little dust. blasting Fame
And may not Death the Artist be.
Which through obstructing flesh can
The imprisoned Soul. and sets II free.
To circle panet-like through space,
Heavens splend0r shining on its facet
July. 1904
-tAlfrcd Austin. In National Review.
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The maxims OF wisdom are the pieces of glass
In a Kaleidoscope: they remain forever
changed and in the same case: but every age
shakes them into n new combination of colorS.
In nine cases out OF ten man who cannot
explain his ideas is the duPe of his imagination
in thinking he has any.
To say to a man when you ask him favor
Don't do Ii IL II inconvenience you" is a mean
way of saving yourself from an obligation. and
deprivins another OF the merit OF comforting
one.
The nattery Of ones friends Is required as q
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with vision rancifulIy fierce

Can through rough QuarTied marble pieroA.
And. plunEing deep within IL. mako
A dreaming lovelincas TO wake,
And live, while common things wax old.
A youthful glory TO behold!
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And such was He whom you win ind
Within this narrow Urn enshrined.
Approach and read: 4 date. a name,
A little dust. blasting Fame