. Review of reviews and world's work. n English, French, andGerman. These labors were fol-lowed !>y exhaustive re-searches into the life ofnative Buddhist popu-lations which the princestudied during severaltours through Siberiaand Central Asia, travel-ing as a member of Rus-sias Bureau of ForeignConfessions, in the De-partment of ReligiousMatters. The results ofthese studies he elabo-rated in a number of pamphlets, essays, and magazine articles. Hehas been very active; in politics, and was thefounder and is the present head of the Russo-Chinese Bank, occupying, also, a high executivepositio
. Review of reviews and world's work. n English, French, andGerman. These labors were fol-lowed !>y exhaustive re-searches into the life ofnative Buddhist popu-lations which the princestudied during severaltours through Siberiaand Central Asia, travel-ing as a member of Rus-sias Bureau of ForeignConfessions, in the De-partment of ReligiousMatters. The results ofthese studies he elabo-rated in a number of pamphlets, essays, and magazine articles. Hehas been very active; in politics, and was thefounder and is the present head of the Russo-Chinese Bank, occupying, also, a high executiveposition with the Chinese Eastern Railway. An uncompromising adherent of the auto-cratic form of government. Prince 1khtoniskysviews, however, are radically differenl from thereactionary conservatism of Catkovs Mbskov-skaiya Vyedomosti (Moscow Gazette) and Mesh-cherskis Grazhdanin (Citizen), in that he supports equity and humanity in all governmentalpolicy, and protests against the highhandednessof the corrupt bureaucracy. In the St Peters-. PRINCE ESPER ESPEROVITCH UKHTOMSKY. (The Russian statesman-editor, who has just completed atour of the United states.) hurgskaiya Vyedomosti (St. Petersburg Gazette),of which he is editor, the prince stands for re-ligious tolerance and local self-government. It is Prince Ukhtomskys singular view thata Russo-Chinese alliance is a desirable thing forthe empire, and he has always favored a trans-fer of the center of Russias historic life to Asia. Prince Ukhtomskyspent several weeks inthe United States, visit-ing Washington andthe St. Louis Fair. Hedid not talk for publi-cation, but, in conversa-tion with Mr. HermanRosenthal, chief of theSlavonic department ofthe New York PublicLibrary, who is himselfconversant at first-handwith the Orient, andwho was an old ac-quaintance of theprinces father, PrinceUkhtomsky declaredthat he is convincedthat the struggle withJapan will continuethrough several yearsyet to come. This viewmay l>e attributed to thewell
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