THE NINETEENTH CENTURY A MONTHLY REVIEW EDITED BY JAMES KNOWLES VOL. XL JULY-DECEMBER 1896 NEW YORK LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION CO., 231 BROADWAY LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY, LIMITED CONTENTS OF VOL. XL By Sir Frederick Young RUSSIA, PERSIA, AND ENGLAND. By Sir Lepel Griffin A WARNING TO IMPERIALISTS By Mrs. Lecky COMMERCIAL UNION OF THE EMPIRE. REFORMATION AND REUNION. By George W. E. Russell THE MATRIARCHAL FAMILY SYSTEM. By Professor Edward B. Tylor THE STORY OF THE MANITOBA SCHOOLS QUESTION. By T. C. Down ARE MANNERS DISAPPEARING FROM GREAT BRITAIN? By the Earl of NEW LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON. By Rowland E. Prothero THE GOD WHO PROMISED VICTORY TO THE MATABELE. By Joseph Millerd NATURE versus THE CHARTERED COMPANY. By the Hon. John Scott Montagu 194 THE BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS IN AMERICA: (1) WAR TO THE KNIFE. By W. L. Alden (2) SUGGESTIONS FOR A COMPROMISE. By William Dillon THE TRAINING OF A JESUIT By the Rev. Father Clarke RECENT SCIENCE (Life in the Moon-Animal and Human Psychology). LIFE IN POETRY: POETICAL CONCEPTION. By Professor Courthope A REAL MAHATMAN. By Professor Max Müller ARBITRATION WITH AMERICA. By John Morley WHY SOUTH AFRICA can WAIT. [Letter to Editor.] By Melius de Villiers 338 THE HIGH OAKS: BARKING HALL, JULY 19, 1896. By Algernon Charles SISYPHUS IN IRELAND: 25 LAND ACTS IN 26 YEARS. By H. O. 'Arnold- THE INFLUENCE OF BAYREUTH. By J. A. Fuller Maitland THE BAPTISM OF CLOVIS. By the Rev. Dr. Jessopp SKETCHES MADE IN GERMANY. By Mrs. Blyth SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF CARDINAL NEWMAN. By Aubrey de Vere. THE JEW-BAITING ON THE CONTINENT. By Dr. Emil Reich. THE UNAVOIDABLE USELESSNESS OF PRISON LABOUR. By Sir Edmund du A NORTHERN PILGRIMAGE. By Sir Wemyss Reid AN ATTEMPT AT OPTIMISM. By the Hon. Lady Ponsonby SAILING FOR LADIES IN HIGHLAND LOCHS. By Mrs. Walter Creyke THE CRY FOR FRAUDULENT MONEY IN AMERICA. By George F. Parker ON THE ETHICS OF SUPPRESSION IN BIOGRAPHY. By Edmund S. Purcell LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AS AN OFFICIAL. By Sir Algernon West ON THE DERVISH FRONTIER. By J. Theodore Bent . COUNTY COUNCILS AND RURAL EDUCATION. By Charles Thomas Dyke Acland 596 HORSE AMBULANCES. By the Hon. Dudley Leigh A VISIT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. By J. H. Round FRA FILIPPO LIPPI. By the late Sir Joseph Crowe (1) By the Rev. Dr. J. Guinness Rogers ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENTAL ALLIANCES. By Francis de Pressensé LA TURQUIE ET SON SOUVERAIN. By Diran Kélékian COMMERCIAL MORALITY IN JAPAN. By Robert Young ARBITRATION IN LABOUR DISPUTES. By Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb Mrs. Birchenough, and Sir Wemyss Reid OF WOMEN IN ASSEMBLIES: A REPLY. By Mrs. McIlquham THE MODERN BABEL, By Professor Mahaffy ENGLISH AND DUTCH DAIRY FARMING. By H. Herbert Smith and Ernest A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHESTERFIELD. By the Hon. Sidney Peel THE NINETEENTH CENTURY No. CCXXXIII-JULY 1896 RUSSIA, PERSIA, AND ENGLAND THE month of May has witnessed, in the assassination of the Shah of Persia and the coronation of the Czar of Russia, two events of deep and enduring interest to the world. The two most conspicuous representatives of despotic and autocratic rule in Europe and Asia; the very embodiments of the oldest and newest order of things, the past and the future, so different and yet so near akin, have divided between them the attention of mankind. The one, an astute and strong ruler, sincerely striving to lead his country in the path of reform and regeneration, struck down by an assassin on the steps of a mosque; the other, a young man of unknown capacity, placing on his head an Imperial crown, amidst the congratulations of two continents, and the tumultuous applause of an empire only second to that of the English Queen in extent, population, and power. What more dramatic than the contrast between the swift and bloody death of the successor of the monarchs whose kingdom had already grown old when Cæsar's galleys first touched the shores of Britain, and the triumphant inauguration of the reign of the ruler of the youngest of European Powers, with princes, ambassadors, and nobles bowing before the throne, an armed host around him, and a dazzled and bewildered nation shouting in their madness: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man'? In still more vivid dramatic contrast stands the shining figure of the young Czar in the central pavilion on the Khodinsky plain, surrounded by a gay crowd of laughing women and obsequious courtiers, while the bands play Glinka's Life for the VOL. XL-No. 233 B |