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CONTENTS OF VOL. LVI

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Our PITIABLE MILITARY SITUATIOX. By Colonel Lonsdale Hale.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION AND COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING. ]

Henry Birchenough. .

HOW JAPAN REFORMED HERSELF. By 0. Eltzbacher

THE WOMEN OF KOREA. By Licut.-Colonel G. J. R. Glünicke.

THE POPE AND THE NOVELIST: A REPLY TO MR. RICHARD Bagot. By

the Rev. Ethelred L. Taunton .

TRAMPS AND WANDERERS. By Mrs. Higgs

EDUCATIONAL CONCILIATION : AN APPEAL TO THE Clergy. By D. C.

Lathbury .

A PRACTICAL View of the AtilanaSIAN Creed. By the Right Rev.

Bishop Welldon
THE VIRGIN-BIRTH. By Slade Butler
INVISIBLE RADIATIONS. By Antonia Zimmern .

MEDICATED AIR: A SUGGESTION. By Dr. William Ewart

THE POLITICAL WOMAN IN AUSTRALIA. By Vida Goldstein

THE CAPTURE OF LHASA IN 1710. By Demetrius C. Boulger

ISCHIA IN JUNE. By Adeline Paulina Irby

CONCERNING SOME OF THE • ENFANTS Trouvés' of LITERATURE. By the

Lady Currie . .

126

INTERNATIONAL Questions' AND THE PRESENT War.' By Sir John

Macdonell . . . . . . . . 142

LAST MONTH:

(1) By Sir Wemyss Reid .

152, 319, 499, 686, 855, 1033

(2) By Edward Dicey .

· 163, 330, 510

(8) By Walter Frewen Lord

. 867, 1044

JAPAN AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR WITH RUSSIA. By Baron

Suyematsu :

173

OUR BI-CENTENARY ON THE Rock. By Ronald McNeill.

181

BRITISH SHIPPING AND FISCAL REFORM. By the Marquis of Graham . 189

THE LIBERAL-PRESS AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. By W.J. Fisher

199

THE ETHICAL NEED OF THE PRESENT DAY. By Prince Kropotkin

207

THE HARVEST OF THE HEDGEROWS. By Walter Raymond

227

THE UNIONIST FREE TRADERS. By J. St. Loe Strachey. .

236

THE POPE AND CHURCH MUSIC-A REJOINDER. By Richard Bagot . 247

To EXPLORE ARABIA BY BALLOON. By the Rev. John M. Bacon .

251

SOME MAXIMS OF THE LATE LORD DALLING AND BULWER. By the Right

Hon. Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff.

262

PEPYS AND MERCER. By Norman Pearson

SOME INDIAN PORTRAITS. By the late Sir William Rattigan

WHAT IS THE USE OF GOLD DISCOVERIES ? By the Right Hon. Leonard

Courtney : : :

: : .. Daimi

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Physical CONDITION OF WORKING-CLASS Children. By Dr. T. J.

Macnamara .

GIFTS. By 0. B. Wheeler

312

How RUSSIA BROUGHT ON WAR-A COMPLETE HISTORY. By Baron

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THE COMING REVOLUTION IN Russia. By Carl Joubert :