. Review of reviews and world's work. grows daily with theincreasing taxes and the incompetence and un-readiness of the governing classes. GeneralBobrikoff was one of the most hated representa-tives of the autocracy, and General \Vahl, whohas been appointed to succeed him, will nodoubt continue his policy. Finlands case againstBobrikoff is presentee! in our Leading Ar-ticles of the Month. Almost two hundred yearsago, Peter the Great ordered his subjects to puton WCstcrn civilization. Mutsuhito commandedhis subjects to do the same one hundred andfifty years later. But, although Russia has hada
. Review of reviews and world's work. grows daily with theincreasing taxes and the incompetence and un-readiness of the governing classes. GeneralBobrikoff was one of the most hated representa-tives of the autocracy, and General \Vahl, whohas been appointed to succeed him, will nodoubt continue his policy. Finlands case againstBobrikoff is presentee! in our Leading Ar-ticles of the Month. Almost two hundred yearsago, Peter the Great ordered his subjects to puton WCstcrn civilization. Mutsuhito commandedhis subjects to do the same one hundred andfifty years later. But, although Russia has hada century and a half the start, Western civiliza-t ion is still to her an outer garment, while the Jap-anese have made it a part of their national life. Both combatants have found pressingWa^loans llrc^ lm ^u sinews of war. Japanhas raised two loans of $50,000,000each. < hie was (in (i percent, bonds, issued at 93£,one half being marketed in New York and one-half in London. The entire loan was heavily THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 23. BARON KENTARO KANEKO. (Baron Kaneko, a samurai, and a distinguished member ofthe Japanese House of Peers, has just made a tour of theUnited States for the purpose of studying economic condi-tions and of reporting to his government on the advanceof American machinery as exhibited at St. Louis. BaronKaneko graduated from the Harvard Law School in , he became professor of law in the Imperial Univer-sity, at Tokio, and then one of the secretaries of the For-eign Department of the empire, rising to the position ofminister of state for agriculture and commerce. He hasalso been chief secretary of the House of Peers and minis-ter of justice.) oversubscrib-ed, and pricesadvanced to96. A secondpopular loanof$50,000,000was issued at95, payable infive years, at 5per cent. Thiswas also heav-ily oversub-scribed. TheRussian bondsfor $160,000,-000, at 5 percent, interest,payable in1909, are ex-empt from all MULAI-ABD-EL-AZIZ, SULTAN OF MOROCCO, taxation.
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