. Review of reviews and world's work. arge scale is of re-cent creation, and it takes the attention of only a frac-tion, comparatively unimportant, of the workingmen in the Russian factories are not ex-ploited and oppressed as they are in Germany, in Eng-land, or in France. The village community known asthe Mir,—does not this actually realize a type of col-lective property ? And, finally, if ever, during the pastcentury, any sovereign accomplished a deed which couldby right be called socialistic—was not this the emanci-pation of the serfs by the ukase of Alexander the Sec-ond, f
. Review of reviews and world's work. arge scale is of re-cent creation, and it takes the attention of only a frac-tion, comparatively unimportant, of the workingmen in the Russian factories are not ex-ploited and oppressed as they are in Germany, in Eng-land, or in France. The village community known asthe Mir,—does not this actually realize a type of col-lective property ? And, finally, if ever, during the pastcentury, any sovereign accomplished a deed which couldby right be called socialistic—was not this the emanci-pation of the serfs by the ukase of Alexander the Sec-ond, followed by these measures which have graduallycontributed to bringing about free tenantcy of land andof a class of small proprietors ? THE HARD LOT OF LABOR IN JAPAN. Japan, on the other hand, he says, is the coun-try in which women and children are moreodiously exploited than in any other countryof the world. They are really in slavery. Hehas heard terrible things about the moral suf-ferings that the Japanese factory workers re-. JOHN BULL ani> TDK DARDANELLES Nothing shall pass there 1 John Hull cries aloud to theuniverse, as he plants his Qtlge foot on the Dardanelles. Russia, disdaining these clamors, cuts a way through the foot with her torpedo boats, and mutilated John Hull criesaloud to the high heavens. From Silhouette (Paris). reive, and calls Tokio a hell for yellow peril, he says, is not by anymeans imaginary ; it is terribly real, especiallyin an economic sense. Japan, he says, is thehope of the Socialists and other opponents ofmodern governmental systems. The torpedoesand cannons of Admiral Togo are the most revo-lutionary of ideas. Between the two combat-ants, all the revolutionaries have no hesitationas to where to place their sympathy. They arefor Japan. Russia is against all revolution by the prestige of her great military successesand all the resources of her diplomacy and heralliances. Besides, he continues, all thought-ful people in Europe
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