. Review of reviews and world's work. world,and is plentifully supplied with the sinews of war. The very financiers who only the other day declined toaccommodate her except on usurious terms are nowtumbling over one another in their anxiety to hail theRising Sun. There could scarcely be more significantevidence of the respective positions of the belligerentsthan the recent refusal of financial France to float an-other Russian loan and the frantic desire of the GermanEmperor, who has been the most vocal of all JapansEuropean enemies, that German banks should partici-pate in financing the yellow
. Review of reviews and world's work. world,and is plentifully supplied with the sinews of war. The very financiers who only the other day declined toaccommodate her except on usurious terms are nowtumbling over one another in their anxiety to hail theRising Sun. There could scarcely be more significantevidence of the respective positions of the belligerentsthan the recent refusal of financial France to float an-other Russian loan and the frantic desire of the GermanEmperor, who has been the most vocal of all JapansEuropean enemies, that German banks should partici-pate in financing the yellow peril. 606 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REJ^IEIV OF REJ/IEWS. RUSSIAN WOMEN AND HIGHER EDUCATION. IN the student troubles in Russia, and espe-cially in the university strikes againstthe autocracy, the dispatches have stated, a re-markably prominent part was played by thewomen students, the so-called were extremely bitter and aggressive, itseems, and they used their influence with themale students in favor of radical GENERAL GLAZOV. (Russian minister of education.) ConsiderabTe light is thrown on this attitudeof the koursistki by an article in the RusskayeBogatstvo, the St. Petersburg radical magazine,on the struggle of the Russian women for highereducation—a struggle that is by no meansended, and in which for about thirty years thegovernment, as represented by the ministries ofeducation and of the interior, persistently opposed them, both openly and secretly. Tliewriter, a woman, A. Loutchinsky, traces thedevelopment of the courses (hence the wordkoursistka, one who attends the courses) andprovisions or institutions for the higher educa-tion of her sex along general and professionallines. She shows that the imperial governmenthas done nothing for, and a great deal against,such education, and that whatever Russianwomen have accomplished in this direction hasbeen achieved in spite of the government. Thestory is a strange one, and that it is not over-drawn may
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