. Review of reviews and world's work. prominent among them are the dailiespublished in the capital, Helsingfors. ThePpiivalehti (Daily News) is the most extensivelycirculated one among the Finnish-speaking in-habitants. Its undaunted opposition to the Rus-sification of Finlands national institutions hasmore than once caused it to be temporarily sus-pended by the governor-general. Helsingforshas also two dailies in the Swedish language, theHufvudstadsbladet (News of the Capital City)and the Helsingfors-Posten (Helsingfors Tost).Both of them are. together with the Pdivdlehtiand
. Review of reviews and world's work. prominent among them are the dailiespublished in the capital, Helsingfors. ThePpiivalehti (Daily News) is the most extensivelycirculated one among the Finnish-speaking in-habitants. Its undaunted opposition to the Rus-sification of Finlands national institutions hasmore than once caused it to be temporarily sus-pended by the governor-general. Helsingforshas also two dailies in the Swedish language, theHufvudstadsbladet (News of the Capital City)and the Helsingfors-Posten (Helsingfors Tost).Both of them are. together with the Pdivdlehtiand nearly all the newspapers in Finland, of thesame tenor, a quiet, dignified opposition to thesteadily increasing Russian influence upon Fin-lands nat tonal affairs. other newspapers of some significancemay be mentioned the J bo Tidningen (Abo News),a Swedish daily, in Al>o ; the Finnish [amulehti(Morning News), in Tammerfors ; the FinnishKarjala (Carelia is the name of a provincein Finland), in Viborg ; the Finnish Luohi (a. EEKO ERKKO. mythological name), in Uleaborg ; the FinnishOtawa (the Pleiad), in Kuopio, and the SwedishVasa-Posten < Vasa Post), in Yasa. The last-named city was for a time altogether withoutnews of its own. all of the local papers havingbeen suspended. Of monthly periodicals, there are two emi-nently worthy of notice. One is the Finsk fid- shrift (FinnishMagazine), and theother, the Valvoja(Guardian). Theformer is in theSwedish, and theLatter in the Fin-nish have literary,and generally sci-entific, contents,and are of the high-est standard. M a n y of thejournals of Swedenare read in Fin-land, especially theStockholm dailies,but you could nothire a patrioticFinn to read a Russian newspaper. One of the Finnish governor-generals pre-rogatives in regard to the newspapers is thathe can. by a threat of suspending the paper,force its publisher to dismiss his editor. Thishas happened quite frequently, and on one oc-casion, in 1900, the
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