. Review of reviews and world's work. naire or, whatis still , as a religious fanatic. In conclusion, declares that Tolstois idea is .simply a productof environment in which this humanitarian was bornand reared. The Russian autocracy and absolutismcould not avoid creating many radically abnormal doci-trinairey of whom Tolstoi is the most prominent. I BRIEFER NOTES ON TOPICS IN THE PERIODICALS. 113 Savins the Ruins of Tycho Brahes Famous Observatory.—Through tht-ItfoitsaiKl interest of thescientific world, aroused by the influence of King OscarII. of Sweden anil Norway, an organ
. Review of reviews and world's work. naire or, whatis still , as a religious fanatic. In conclusion, declares that Tolstois idea is .simply a productof environment in which this humanitarian was bornand reared. The Russian autocracy and absolutismcould not avoid creating many radically abnormal doci-trinairey of whom Tolstoi is the most prominent. I BRIEFER NOTES ON TOPICS IN THE PERIODICALS. 113 Savins the Ruins of Tycho Brahes Famous Observatory.—Through tht-ItfoitsaiKl interest of thescientific world, aroused by the influence of King OscarII. of Sweden anil Norway, an organized movement ison foot to preserve what is left of the famous observ-atory of the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, at Ura-nienburg. In a recent number of the Wnrhc (Berlin),Mr. F. S. Archenhold, director of the Treptow , traces the history of astronomical developmentup to the time Tycho Brahe made his remarkal)le dis-coveries. October 24, 1901, was the three-hundredthanniversary of the astronomers death, and this fact,. TYCHO BRAHE. (From a famous painting in the observatory at Priinue.) noted by astronomers all over the world, called the at-tention of the Scandinavian monarchs to tlie fact thatthe observatory and estate of the famous Danish astron-omer had fallen into grievous ruin, and was graduallydisappearing. King Oscar interested himself at once,and through his interest the observatory will ])e rebuilt,the restoration to be finished in U>iS. This observatory,it will be remembered, was on the island of Hven. andits work was made possi))le in the Ijeginning throughthe patronage of King Frederick II. of Dennuvrk. Thelast was made in March, 1-597. The Result of the Hel^iau Elections.—An an-alysis of the elections of the present year in Belgiumappears in the Revue GcnCrnlc (Brussels), from the penof Charles Woeste. This writer shows that, while theConservative (or Catholic) party lost several seats, owingto the union of the opposition, yet this
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