. . . . Academy, The New. By Augus- Children, The, of the Pale. By B. Air-Ship, the, The Development Children, The Sayings of of. By John M. Bacon . 292 Christianity, Dr. Fairbairn on the Almanack, the, The Absurdities American Literature, The Influ- Christmas Carol, A. By Christian 38 Christmas, Prithee. By Lady Lind- Animals, The Behavior of, in Un- familiar Circumstances. By Civilization and Glaciers. By F. Art, Decorative, at Turin. By H. Closed Gentian, The. By Christian Art, Flemish, The Exhibition of, Cock Robin. By John Oxenham . 155 in Bruges. By Mary H. Witt 403 Coward Memory. By Ellen Glas- Asia, In Central. By Dr. Sven Craft Cramps. Astrology, The Pretended Science Crowning Joys. By Rosa Waugh 640 Homes, In, By Edith Sellers 473 Darwin, Weismann, and Lamarck 517 Austen's, Jane, Novels. By Walter Dead Letter, The. By Edward Ave Venezia atque Vale. By Ed- Drought, In Time of. By G. Lum- Bailey, Philip James. By Edmund Education Bill, The. By the Right Bavarian Literary Gathering, A. . 252 Bells in the Night. By Francis Benediction, A. By Mary Farrah, 704 Evening. By Norah McCormick : 256 Bird Life. By T. Digby Pigott 47 Evolution and Fossil Plants. By Birds, Across Russian Lapland in 179 Fairbairn, Dr., on the Philosophy Bodleian Library, The. By Ernest of Christianity. By James Orr 273 96 Fairy Tales in the Schoolroom. Boers, The, and The Empire. By Boy, The Little By May Byron . 483 Fiction, Some Phases in. By Broken Courtship, The. By Her- man Montague Donner. 640 Fiction, Twelve Months' Burns as an English Poet. By Finger-Prints as Detectives 815 David Christie Murray. 681 Fisherman's Song, The. By Mark Cathedral, The, of St. Magnus. By Fossil Plants and Evolution. By . Gate, The, of Heaven, By F. W. Merit, The New Order of. By Her- German Band, the, The Home of. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Gipsy Gold. By Glenrowan. 128 Mother-Song, A (Devon). By Ar- Glaciers and Civilization. By F. 508 My Spectacles. By G. S. Street . 176 Gladstone, Mr. By Lord Rosebery 513 Good Breeding in the New Testa- Nature, The Return to. By Mary Gossip, Some About Old Prints. Nature, The School of Nelson, a Friend of. By Horace Hallucinations, The Nature of. By Hittite Inscriptions, the, The De- Russian. By Edith Sellers. 473 By Dorothy à Beckett Terrell 228: Organist, The, in Heaven. By T. 129 Owls. By R. Bosworth Smith 651 Indwelling. By T. E. Brown 192 Parliamentary Machine, The. By Katherine Cary's Christening Cup By Dorothea Townshend 489 Pictures, The Buying of: Its The- and Motherhood in Japan) . 696 Piloting Princes. By Hugh Clif- Labyrinth. By Walter Ramal 384 Lamarck, Darwin, and Weismann 517 Poetry in the Nineteenth Century 705. Lines Written in London. By Ella Pulpit, a City, A Generation in. Puritanism on American Litera- Memories of My Childhood and Relic Market, The. By Harold de Amicis. 15, 148, 266, 417, Roosevelt, President, A Year of. 497 . Sea-Gull, The. By C. H. St. L. 704 Sermon to the Colonial Troops. By J. E. C. Welldon 59 Servant, the, The Lot of. By Mrs. Hugh Bell . 205 Shakespeare's "Hamlet.” By Lewis Campbell 352 Shakespeare, of, as a Man of Sci ence Judge Webb's Reply 121 Sierras, In the. By Richard Askham 821 Skye, A Season in. By Hugh E. M. Stutfield 242 Sleeping City, A. By F. W. Bour. dillon 64 Snowflake, a, The Biography of. By Arthur H. Bell . 758 Specula. By T. E. Brown 448 Spellbound. By Christian Burke. 192 Starlings, Watching the. By Edmund Selous 761 Star-Steering. By T. E. Brown. 192 . . . . . . 422 When announcement was made the pretation will, at the critical moment, other day that the Triple Alliance had assume a given form. The essence of been renewed for the fourth time, the such documents lies in the motives and question which seemed to agitate the intentions of the contracting parties. public mind most was whether the This is all the truer of the Triple Alli. terms of the Treaty were or were not ance because the text of its treaty has the same as those originally sub- never been officially divulged. The con: scribed. It is now established beyond fidence of the public has been won by reasonable doubt that the Treaty was the conduct of the Allies, by their in no way modified, at least so far as known psychology and by the fact that the 1891 and 1896 texts are concerned.' their cooperation, whatever its docuNevertheless, the public have remained mentary basis, has been attended by 3 perplexed and perturbed. Even with very solid preservation of the peace. the Treaty unaltered, there is a vague Moreover, the Triple Alliance has consuspicion that the circumstances of the noted in the public mind a certain Alliance are no longer what they were. mechanism of European peace which Things are happening which did not has not always been confined to its own happen when Prince Bismarck gov- members. At one time it took the form erned Europe, and although everybody of a veritable European edition. At is protesting that everything is for the another it presented itself as a balance best in the best of all possible worlds, of alliances. Now, to-day there are the thinking politician is far from reas- distinct signs of a change in both the sured. psychology of the Powers and the genAs a matter of fact, the question of eral mechanism of peace. The Triple the actual text of the Treaty is of very Alliance has been renewed, but with little essential importance. It is so with very ominous difficulty. The outward all treaties of offensive or defensive semblance of an equilibrium of allialliance, for no one can ever be certain ances has been preserved, but with the that their obligations will be observed elimination of the mechanical principle in the contingencies for which they are of mutual counteraction. How will this supposed to provide, or, that if they are novel experiment work? What are the not repudiated or evaded, their inter- motives and intentions of its authors? 1 It was in 1891 that the military protocols These are the questions which are more were first left out of the Treaty. or less consciously occupying the public |
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