. Review of reviews and world's work. where there is little to bring out of a coun-try there will be little to be taken in. There isebony and other good timber on the Blue Nile ;there are also gum, ivory, and ostrich featliers tobe had, but not in any great quantity. The chiefimpediment to trade will probably be the difficultyof bringing up bulky goods like fabrics, for therailroad is blocked with stores and materials forthe dam at Assuan and the rebuilding of Khar-tum. Briefly, there is no place for heroics aboutthe reopened Soudan. Khartum is being slowlytransformed from a collection
. Review of reviews and world's work. where there is little to bring out of a coun-try there will be little to be taken in. There isebony and other good timber on the Blue Nile ;there are also gum, ivory, and ostrich featliers tobe had, but not in any great quantity. The chiefimpediment to trade will probably be the difficultyof bringing up bulky goods like fabrics, for therailroad is blocked with stores and materials forthe dam at Assuan and the rebuilding of Khar-tum. Briefly, there is no place for heroics aboutthe reopened Soudan. Khartum is being slowlytransformed from a collection of old ruined mudhuts to a collection of new, stable ones. Thegovernors palace will be as palatial as an Italianrural hotel. Tlie Gordon College will be an el-ementary school for little boys between sevenand fourteen. The provincial governments aresoldiers in their shirt-sleeves, the law courts thesame as the provincial governments. It all hasto be made out of nothing. The Soudan lias noelement of a country—not even It. From Frant Leslies Papular Monthly. THE KHAliIFA. (Killed in battle with the Anglo-Egyptian troops underColonel Wiiigate, November 34, 18J!), 170 miles south ofOmdurman.) is a scraped tablet ; and only the broadest andplainest lines of social life can as yet be drawnupon it. But those will be drawn with a firmtouch. Security is the first requisite. As thenew generation grows it will find tlie paths alreadymarked out for it. The Death of the Khalifa. In an article entitled The Last of the Der-vishes, in the National Review for January,Maj. F. I. Maxse, of the Coldstream Guards, de-scribes the fall of the Klialifa, in November account of the charge of the Dervishes, ledby the Khalifa and liis Emirs, follows : Our infantry fixed bayonets and opened withvolleys at 400 yards. The twelve-pounders andMaxims were hard at it ; but in spite of this con-tinuous fire, on came the Khalifa at the head ofhis men. Though firing ince.^santly, their aimwas
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