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...most momentous crises she has faced since the restoration of the Imperial House. The deaths within the month of two of her ablest statesmen of the old school,--Prince Yamagata and Marquis Okuma; the nationwide tenseness over the trial of the late Premier Hara's assassin in Tokio, have thrown into sharp relief the vast struggle going on beneath the surface in Japan...
...Labori as the head of the French bar giving a recapitulation of the Dreyfus cases, in which M. Labori figured so prominently. He was counsel for the defence when Captain Dreyfus was granted a new trial, and during the course of the case was shot by a would-be assassin. President Lowell extolled his bravery in facing adverse public opinion because he deemed himself in the right...
...governed by an incapable king under the control of a tyrannous "Boss," Count della Croca; it is patrolled by a corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into a mercenary marriage, forces her by his violence to run away and join her lover, the secretary of the Dynamiters. These are confident...
...True happiness is not reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...
...interest in the January Century centres in the artice on the death of Linclon and the pursuit and death of Booth, the assassin. The first is a chapter in Nicolay and Hay's great history, and the second is written by M. B. Ruggles and E. P. Doherty, both of whom were eye-witnesses. The "Present Day Papers" are continued by an article on Problems of the Family by Rev. Samuel W. Dike, and W. J. Stillman adds to his series on the Italian Old Masters by a paper on Andrea Mantegua, with a fine engraying by Timothy Cole...