. Review of reviews and world's work. that there are stillimportant land masses to be discovered north ofthe Arctic circle. Favorable action was also taken with xegardto the large project, now considerably advanced,of mapping the world on a uniform scale of1:1,000,000, or nearly sixteen statute miles, to aninch ; also on a considerable number of otherplans designed to unify geographical effort andincrease its efficiency, such as the statistics otpopulation in countries without census, the no-menclature of the ocean bottom, the rules forgeographic names, earthquake investigation, andothers The
. Review of reviews and world's work. that there are stillimportant land masses to be discovered north ofthe Arctic circle. Favorable action was also taken with xegardto the large project, now considerably advanced,of mapping the world on a uniform scale of1:1,000,000, or nearly sixteen statute miles, to aninch ; also on a considerable number of otherplans designed to unify geographical effort andincrease its efficiency, such as the statistics otpopulation in countries without census, the no-menclature of the ocean bottom, the rules forgeographic names, earthquake investigation, andothers The resolutions of these congresses havealways carried great influence, and have oftenachieved very important results LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. JAPANS PROBABLE TERMS OF PEACE. BEFORE the outbreak of the war in the farEast, Beven prominent professors at theImperial University of Tokio strongly urgedthe Tokio government, by petition, to take de-cisive action to protect Japans interest in Ko-rea and Manchuria against the aggression of. Co/tiers Weekly. COUNT KATSURA. (Prime minister of Japan.) the Muscovite. They were distinguished as the•Seven Belligerents. The ultra-belligerent ofthese seven professors is without doubt Dr. , professor of law in the Tokio ImperialUniversity. From his pen has appeared an ar-ticle entitled Japans Post-Bellum Demands,in the latest issue of the Taiyo. CESSION OF THE EASTERN CHINESE RAILWAY. According to Professor Tomizu, the cessionof the Eastern Chinese Railway to Japan is offoremost importance. This railroad nominally belongs to a private corporation of Russia. Butunder this thin mask it is not difficult to recog-nize that the real entrepreneur is the MuscoviteGovernment. The government stations soldiersto guard the route, and appoints important offi-cials for the railroads. Even if it were a privateenterprise, it behooves the Russian Governmentto buy it of its owner and then cede it to professor does not lose sight of the fact
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