23 MARCH 1912, page 20

The Full Recognition Of Jafan'..

THE year 1911 was a notable one in the history of Japan; for then her commercial treaties—all of them reminders of inferiority and subservience to other Powers—came to an end, •......

Bismarck's Pen.*

THE Life of Abeken sets before us an interesting and, on the whole, an attractive man who, after many vacillations in his youth, settled down to diplomatic work and eventually,......