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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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nJapans ability to finance a long war, which wepublish this month (on page 454), is theauthoritative word on the subject. Baron Kaneko graduated from the HarvardLaw School in 1S7.S, and later became professorof law in the Imperial University, at Tokio. He then entered the foreign department of thegovernment, and rose to the position of ministerof state for agriculture and commerce. He hasalso been chief secretary of the House of Peers,and minister of justice. In June, 1899, he wasagain in this country, and then received the de-gree of LL.D. from Harvard University. Inconferring the degree, President Eliot addressedthe baron thus : Kentaro Kaneko, Harvardbachelor of laws, formerly chief secretary of theImperial House of Peers in Japan, minister ofagriculture and commerce, life member of theHouse of Peers, the type of those scholars of twohemispheres through whom West would welcomeEast to share in the inheritance of Hebrew re-ligion, Greek art, Roman law, and nineteenth-century science.
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DR. E. J. DILLON, JOURNALIST AND TRAVELER. DR. EMILE JOSEPH DILLON, whose ar-ticle dealing with the effects of the presentwar on Russian conditions begins on page 449of this number of the Review of Reviews, wasborn in Ireland about fifty years ago. His motherwas English and his father Irish. Dr. Dillon re-ceived his university education on the Continent,at the College de France, Paris, and at the Uni-versities of Innsbruck, Leipsic, Tubingen, St.Petersburg, Louvain, and Kharkoff, where he at-tended lectures on philology, theology, historicalcriticism, and philosophy. It is said that he isthe only writer in the ranks of London journal-ism who can compose an article with equal facil-ity in English, French. Herman, or Russian. Heis the master, also, of many other languages. Dr.Dillon married a Russian lady in 1881, and sincethat date has lived much of the time in St. Petersburg. He first attracted attention as thewriter of a series of brilliant articles on Russiain the leading English re

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