Review of reviews and world's work . sition and responsi-bilities. There are single families taking care of asmany as 20,000 people. The Emperor has been published abroad as indif-ferent. It is only just to remark that this peculiarkind of indifference has been manifested not merelyin a vigorous direction of the later governmentaloperatives of relief, even to the summary dismissal ofinefficient agents, but in gifts from his private purse,which, if the belief of St. Petersburg can be accepted,amount to 15 or 20 times all the contributions of allthe world outside of Russia. The Russian Governmen
Review of reviews and world's work . sition and responsi-bilities. There are single families taking care of asmany as 20,000 people. The Emperor has been published abroad as indif-ferent. It is only just to remark that this peculiarkind of indifference has been manifested not merelyin a vigorous direction of the later governmentaloperatives of relief, even to the summary dismissal ofinefficient agents, but in gifts from his private purse,which, if the belief of St. Petersburg can be accepted,amount to 15 or 20 times all the contributions of allthe world outside of Russia. The Russian Government and people warmly ap-preciate the efforts made by America to relieve thewant among the peasants. Murat Halstead on the Political Significanceof the Famine. Murat Halstead has an unusually good subject,and one especially fitted to his particular genius andEuropean experience, in Politics of the RussianFamine, the title of his dissertation in the May He shows how signally the Muscovite l)4 ^ THE RE^IEIV OF REI^ MURAT HALSTEAD. calamity has tried the efficacy, the very reason forbeing, of paternal government, and how miserablythe regime of the Great White Czar has failed. Andyet he realizes, as Mr. Stead has so clearly discerned,that when we impeach the name of the Russianautocrat it is really the system which is at Czar is but the powerless exponent of it. the flyon the rim of the teacup; as Mr. Halstead puts it,he is the chief of serfs. ^Ir. Halstead sees in the historj of the famine anadded testimony to the barbarous absurdity of astanding army containing anned and drilledmen—an army not even justified by an ambitiousnecessity. No conquest of territory, save that ofTurkey in Europe, would help the geograpliical posi-tion of the empire. When the army of the empirewas encamped before the gates of Constantinople the voice of Europe proclaimed that this conqiiest wasnot to be. We can hardly conceive that if the soldiers ofRussia had be
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