Review of reviews and world's work . orts to avoid unsympathetic criticisms from Privy Council. Viscount Sone, who wasforeign nations they have retarded the solu- vice-resident-general under Prince Ito, hastion of the Korean problem. been promoted to the resident-generalship. Prince Ito inevitably seems to stand forIt has popularly been said that Prince Ito him- ^^^ —^ ^f ^^^ Japanese people as a govern-self was the mitiator of the existmg regime m . tt- r l i Korea. But upon a high auihoritv I am inclined § t- ^is name first became known toto believe that the idea of placing Korea under the W
Review of reviews and world's work . orts to avoid unsympathetic criticisms from Privy Council. Viscount Sone, who wasforeign nations they have retarded the solu- vice-resident-general under Prince Ito, hastion of the Korean problem. been promoted to the resident-generalship. Prince Ito inevitably seems to stand forIt has popularly been said that Prince Ito him- ^^^ —^ ^f ^^^ Japanese people as a govern-self was the mitiator of the existmg regime m . tt- r l i Korea. But upon a high auihoritv I am inclined § t- ^is name first became known toto believe that the idea of placing Korea under the Western world in connection with thea resident-general was suggested by a third Chinese-Japanese war of 1895. Since thenpower which had been intimate with Japan, j^^ ^as been the best known and most highlvBut for this suggestion the elder statesmen • 1 1 c t ^ ^ • ..u would have hesitated to act as they did. Even considered of Japanese statesmen in the eyesafter Japan decided to estabUsh a protectorate of Occidental photograph Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. PRINCE ITO. WHO HAS RECENTLY RESIGNED AS JAPANSRESIDENT-GENERAL IN KOREA. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 359 HARBIN: RUSSIAS UNCOMPLETED MANCHU- RIAN METROPOLIS. npHRF^K hundred and fifty miles west ofVladivostok and six hundred milesnorth of Dalny, in the }jeo}2;raphical centerof Manchuria, stands the twelve-year-oldcity of Harbin, planned by Russia to be-come the Moscow of Asia, the Minneapolisof the Far East, and the Chicago of theOrient. A visitor to the town desirous ofreporting on its condition to-day would haveto describe it in some such terms as these: Grass grows in tlic streets; no smoke issuesfrom the tall chimneys of the mills. The largeand costly stocked department stores open forthe day and only a casual customer have closed. Only one or two cafeschantanis invite the midnight pleasure seeker,in place of the previous t\venty-si.\. The housesare out of repair and the pl
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