25 FEBRUARY 1905, page 6

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......

W E Cannot Profess To Feel Any Acute Sense Of Pity

about the position in which the Government have placed themselves owing to their handling of the MacDonell affair. They have only got what they deserved in the matter of public......