. Review of reviews and world's work. ported by any very intelligibleexplanation of causes. (_)ne rumor has been ofan inevitable outbreak between Bulgaria andServia, with no sufficient cause assigned apartfrom the chronic frictions and jealousies betweenthese two small states. Certainly it is not to bebelieved that Servia would fight in resentmentof disagreeable things said in Bulgaria about theex-king Milan. Another and somewhat betterdefined rumor has been to the effect that Bul-garia and Turkey are about to go to war over thealleged determination of the Bulgarians to throwoff the nominal su
. Review of reviews and world's work. ported by any very intelligibleexplanation of causes. (_)ne rumor has been ofan inevitable outbreak between Bulgaria andServia, with no sufficient cause assigned apartfrom the chronic frictions and jealousies betweenthese two small states. Certainly it is not to bebelieved that Servia would fight in resentmentof disagreeable things said in Bulgaria about theex-king Milan. Another and somewhat betterdefined rumor has been to the effect that Bul-garia and Turkey are about to go to war over thealleged determination of the Bulgarians to throwoff the nominal suzerainty which the Sultan stillholds over the Bulgarian principality. Undoubt-edly, Bulgaria desires at the first favorable mo- ment to become a full-fledged, independentkingdom like Servia and Roumania. But infighting for the shadow the substance might beendangered. As matteis have stood for someyears past, the suzerainty has cost Bulgarianothing, either of monev or of entire freedom ofaction ; while it has, on the other hand, given. THE I,ATE KEV. THOMAS K. BEECHER. the Bulgarian Government a certain asset in thenature of a claim upon Tuikey for military sup-port under conceivaljle enieigencies. There havebeen many war scares in the l^alkan region intimes past that came to nothing, although theyseemed far more serious than that of last month. Some The obituary list of the month con-Obituanj tains the names of many well-knownNotes. people who had led lives of usefulnessto the community in widely varied E. J. Phelps, the well-known lawyer, hadserved as our minister to Great Britain. , a representative in Congress from Penn-sylvania, was known as the Father of theHouse, in view of his long continued members of the Beecher family, brotherand sister of the late Henry Ward Beecher diedon the same day. One of these was the K. Beecher, of Elmira, a great preacherand religious leader, and the other was Beecher Perkins, of Hartfo
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