NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—" War Editions" of The Story of
Russia, by W. R. Morfill, and The Story of Japan, by David Murray, LL.D., Edited by Jacob H. Longford (T. Fisher Unwin, 5s. each). Both books are brought up to date. Professor Morfill has made considerable additions to his book, first published, it may be noted, in 1890. It was in the year following that the first sod of the Siberian Railway was cut, and the railway, as some one remarked the other day, is the "path of Empire." In 1896 the Czar and the Czaritza paid a visit to France, a visit returned in the year following by President Faure. The Franco-Russian Alliance, of which these civilities were the symbol, belongs to the last decade. In 1898 Russia obtained from China a twenty-five years' lease of Port Arthur and Ta-lien-wan, and in 1901 interfered to hinder Japan from securing the results of her successes in the war with China. The Story of Japan has been similarly continued. It will be interesting to compare the army figures of the two countries. Russian total-66,410 officers, 3,549,000 men, 5,818 guns (possibly a certain part of these exists on paper only) ; Japanese total— standing army and reserves together, 576,000.—English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula. Extracted from Sir W. Napier's "Peninsular War." (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)
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