25 FEBRUARY 1905, page 5

T Would Have Taxed The Gloomy Power Of Tacitus, That

supreme master of the condensed eloquence for which scarcely any language but the Roman is an adequate vehicle, to describe accurately the present con- dition of the Russian......

D Uring The Past Few Weeks Several Attempts Have Been Made

in the Press to " draw " the Liberal leaders on the subject of the Japanese Alliance. They have been challenged, indeed, in explicit terms to state whether or not they mean to......