. Review of reviews and world's work. ain the necessary two-thirds major-ity ; and (9), adopted without dissent, pardon of allexiles and prisoners who have suffered for the right-ful cause of the people. The Resurrection of Finland. Mr. W. T. Stead contributes to the Contem-porary an account of the informal negotiationsbetween the governor-general of Finland andthe leading representatives of the Finlanderson the very eve of the revolution which finallydisposed of Bobrikovism and the Stead says : It is Easter morn in Helsingfors. But the resurrec-tion which they have been celebr
. Review of reviews and world's work. ain the necessary two-thirds major-ity ; and (9), adopted without dissent, pardon of allexiles and prisoners who have suffered for the right-ful cause of the people. The Resurrection of Finland. Mr. W. T. Stead contributes to the Contem-porary an account of the informal negotiationsbetween the governor-general of Finland andthe leading representatives of the Finlanderson the very eve of the revolution which finallydisposed of Bobrikovism and the Stead says : It is Easter morn in Helsingfors. But the resurrec-tion which they have been celebrating these last daysis not , but national. Finland has risen again,and every one thereat doth exceedingly rejoice, noteven excepting the Russians, without wliose good-willthis peaceful festival of the re-birth of a nation wouldhave been stained with blood. There has been a mar-velous completeness, a dramatic effect, about the resur-rection of Finland which sets it apart from all similarre-births of oppressed NICHOLAS AND HIS PEOPLE. The Russian situation as seen by the Wahre Jakob(Stuttgart). Then follows a jyrecis of the heads of the argu-ment on eacli side, from which the following isa typical extract : Prince Obolenski stated the Russian pcint of viewpretty much as follows : Finland had been the favored bride of her Russianbridegroom for nearly a hundred years. So long hadlasted the honeymoon that when the time came for Fin-laud to accept the ordinary obligations and perform theoidinary duties of a Russian housewife she resented itas a cruel oppression, and had gone sulking ever since. To which the Finlanders reply : The Finnish bride, although married by force, hadbeen guaranteed that the so-called honeymoon shouldlast forever. Her guarantee was the oath of her grandduke to observe the Finnish constitution, which wasthe legal charter of her so-called honeymoon attempt to reduce her to the position of one amongthe many housewives of h
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