. Review of reviews and world's work. following out theLoyala prescription that the end always justifiesthe means. The great reformer had a personal,as well as an ecclesiastical spite against QueenMary. This made him almost always, in a cer-tain degree, a special pleader. But he neverswerved from his purpose. In his History,as far as I can discover, Mr. Lang concludes, he deliberately concealed the truth on severalessential points, and sometimes accused theregent of perfidy when she was not guilty. S58 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REWIEIV OF REl/lElVS. THE GEOGRAPHY OF MANCHURIA. y tlie Japanese witli
. Review of reviews and world's work. following out theLoyala prescription that the end always justifiesthe means. The great reformer had a personal,as well as an ecclesiastical spite against QueenMary. This made him almost always, in a cer-tain degree, a special pleader. But he neverswerved from his purpose. In his History,as far as I can discover, Mr. Lang concludes, he deliberately concealed the truth on severalessential points, and sometimes accused theregent of perfidy when she was not guilty. S58 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REWIEIV OF REl/lElVS. THE GEOGRAPHY OF MANCHURIA. y tlie Japanese witli thatcarried on ten 3-ears ago in the war with Chinaheaves a very strong impression that the natureand direction of the army movements are being-controlled by the surface of the country. Theenemy in the former war came from the south ;in this war, from the north. The former enemywas weak ; this one, strong. Yet the movements ofthe opposing armies have been so nearly identical. ■JHK HIGH GRAIN OF MANCHUKIA. (Showing a Russian cavalryman hidden from the enemy in a millet field.) in the two cases that it has been well said that astrategic map of either war would serve to illus-trate an account of the other. Beginning withthese sentences, Prof. N. M. Fenneman, who oc-cupies the chair of geology in the University ofWisconsin, contributes to the Journal of Geog-ra^yhy a paper on the physical and strategic geog-raphy of Manchuria. Professor Fenneman saysthat there are really no reliable maps of Man-churia outside of the circle of the Japanese WarDepartment. Manchuria, he reminds us, is acountry of large dimensions,—nearly 1,000 mileslong from the northernmost ben-d of the AmurRiver to the Yellow Sea, on the south. The average width is nearly 400 miles, giving an areaof something less than 400,000 square miles. Accuracyis not possible on account of the contradictory natureof maps with reference to the western boundary. PortArthur, on the Yellow Sea, is in the l
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