. Review of reviews and world's work. prove of them. The Macedonians willnow attain their rights. Had any one of thepowers actually intended to carry out the de-struction of the Ottoman Empire at the presenttime, more energetic measures would have beenadopted. As it is, the dissolution of the Ottoman Em-pire is taking a most unusual course. Paradox-ical as it may sound, Turkey will be ruined byreforms which are being forced upon her by de-grees. These reforms cannot be obstructed, asthey will progress automatically, one from theother. The incidents of the last few weeks aresurely not the last
. Review of reviews and world's work. prove of them. The Macedonians willnow attain their rights. Had any one of thepowers actually intended to carry out the de-struction of the Ottoman Empire at the presenttime, more energetic measures would have beenadopted. As it is, the dissolution of the Ottoman Em-pire is taking a most unusual course. Paradox-ical as it may sound, Turkey will be ruined byreforms which are being forced upon her by de-grees. These reforms cannot be obstructed, asthey will progress automatically, one from theother. The incidents of the last few weeks aresurely not the last of their kind. The Arme-nians will follow the Macedonians. On the pres-ent occasion the various small powers of theBalkans were given to understand in a trite com-munication that the antagonistic attitude towardTurkey was not to be deemed an encouragementto them. It may be stated, however, that thefuture of Turkey will not be decided in Con-stantinople, but will be dependent upon theoutcome of the present chaotic conditions MAP OF THE ARCTIC liE(il()NS, t>IIOWI\(i KOlTKS IN 8EEKIN(i THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE. MAKING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE. BY CYRUS C. ADAMS. CAPTAIN ROALD AMUNDSEN and hisseven comrades have made the NorthwestPassage in one of the smallest vessels that everundertook exploration in the archipelago northof us. The sloop Cljda^ of forty-seven tons, withlittle spread of sail and weak motive power,—for she is driven by a small petroleum engine,—has accomplished a task that the big, strongships sent out by England failed to acliieve. Itis a curious fact-that two of the smallest vesselssent into those waters have done some of themost memorable work. A Norwegian single-stickvessel is the first to make the Northwest Passage,and it was the steam yacht Fox that carried toEurope the first definite information of the fateof the Franklin expedition. Our map shows the great islands and some ofthe myriad small ones that England added to thecharts of the
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