28 JUNE 1913, page 8

The Fate Of Empires.*

THERE can be no student of history who has not posed himself with the question whether civilization necessarily contains the seeds of its own decay. The spectacle of ruined......

Comte Roger De Damas.* "a Frenchman With The Good Qualities

of three centuries," wrote the Prince de Ligne of Roger de Dames. "He has the chivalry of one, the charm of another, and the gaiety of the present one. Francis I., the great......