. Review of reviews and world's work. child of the Volunteer Fleet, the Eastern Chinese MaritimeService was born. It was really an afterthoughtof the Eastern Chinese Railway, and a comple-ment to the same. The growth of Dalny, thefiat city, and Russias determination to makeit one of the great seaports of the such a line necessary. This servicewas just entering into its period of exploitationwhen the present war broke out. The other marine enterprises which are sub-sidized by the government are the Steam Navi-gation Society of Archangel-Mourmaine, theCaucasus and Mercury Company
. Review of reviews and world's work. child of the Volunteer Fleet, the Eastern Chinese MaritimeService was born. It was really an afterthoughtof the Eastern Chinese Railway, and a comple-ment to the same. The growth of Dalny, thefiat city, and Russias determination to makeit one of the great seaports of the such a line necessary. This servicewas just entering into its period of exploitationwhen the present war broke out. The other marine enterprises which are sub-sidized by the government are the Steam Navi-gation Society of Archangel-Mourmaine, theCaucasus and Mercury Company, navigating theCaspian Sea, and two river companies—the So-ciety for the Navigation of the Amur and theFeodorof Steam Company of Eastern is also a company for the navigation ofLake Baikal. As yet there are no subsidizedlines in the Baltic. RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SLAV. IT is assumed by the non-Russian world thatthe Muscovite autocratic system is nowfacing the most serious trial in its history. An. TIIKIU MAJESTIES OP IUT88IA. (The Czar and Czarina, as Byzantine autocrats, in the COS- tomes of Seventeenth Century, Russia.) interpretation of this autocracy, by a Russianwriter, on the basis of the most famous advo-cates of the system, appears in the InternationalQuarterly, from the pen of Prof. Vladimir , of Columbia University. The au-tocratic system in Russia, says this writer, isbreaking down. The day when it will be abandoned ought to be aday of praise and thanksgiving, not only for the people,but also for tbe Czar ; for Russian autocracy has notonly brought the country to the verge of ruin and star-vation, but it has also ruled Czar Nicholas II. with arod of iron, and out of a man of noble motives andhigh ideals it has made a pathetic figurehead, suffer-ing under the weight of the inherent system. Professor Simkowvitch quotes several Russianwriters to the effect that it is bureaucracy whichis the ruin of Russia. With this he d
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