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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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e army.His ambition was to do for Russia whatBismarck did for the German Empire. Hestrove to Russify all the diverse races of theempire, and while he always favoredlegislative projects that would make forRussian prestige abroad and would ameli-orate the lot of the peasants, he oftenfathered severe repressive measures, par- ticularly against the Poles and Jews. InMarch last, he resigned because his pet ()ro-ject for the extension of the Zemstvo systemof local governi.ient to all sections of Euro-pean Russia in v.hich it had not previouslyprevailed, was rejected by the Council of thelOmpire. Czar Nicholas, howe\er, persuadedhim to remain at his post. Stolypin was afearless man of sincere convictions, thoughundoubtedly of the old Russian reactionarytype of mind. The fact that the Emperorwas not able, during the five years of Stolypinsincumbency, to get a premier to relieve him,would seem to be an indication that withStolypin out of the way, a new order ofthings will soon begin in Russia.
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BOY SCOU rs OF STAUNTON. VIRGINIA thb: boy scouts of America BY DAN BEARD (National Scout Commissioner) SOME husky men in their shirt sleeveswere pitching quoits, when one of theplayers somehow lost his balance just as hewas about to make a pitch. In his struggleto save himself, his body swung round in ahalf circle, he flung his arms out to balancehimself, and the iron ring flew off at a tangent,gyrating through the air, landing in the midstof a merry group of picnickers, who wereeating their lunch from a cloth spread on thegrass. There was a shrill scream, and a youngwoman threw up her hands and fell backwardon the sward, with an ugly gash in her headfrom which the red bloocl flowed profusely.The other women screamed shrilly too, eitherout of sympathy or because it was the onlything they knew how to do in such anemergency. The men joined the crowd and elbowed andjostled one another, stupidly, helplessly, star-ing at the \ictim of the accident, at the sametime shutting off all fresh a

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