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Accompanied by her third son and by numerous retainers, the Begum of Bhopal,f sole feminine ruler of an Indian state, interviewed British statesmen on the question of her successor...
...first and second sons have died. According to the law of primogeniture, her grandson, the son of her eldest son, is her heir. But the Begum clings to her own third son, Sahib Cada Mohomid Mamidulla Kahn, whom she has brought with her to show off to the London sahibs...
...away, the Government of India is now deliberating the matter. If it decides against the Begum's favorite, she will at once appeal to the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Earl of Birkenhead. Thankfully British statesmen learned that she had brought her own curry cook, opining that had she not done so they might have been harder put to provide her with orthodox viands than to unravel the legal knot of her succession...
...Highness, the Begum of Bhopal, exercising power of life and death over her subjects, has adopted prohibition in her state. It matters not what think her subjects, they must give up their alcohol...
...Atlantic for October contains a long instalment of Mr. Bynnier's interesting serial, "The Begum's Daughter." There are several very good historical essays. The first is a description of the experiences of a non-combatant in South Carolina in 1861, by J. R. Kendrick. John Fiske offers another of his critical essays on the Revolutionary period, the topic being, "The Monmouth and Newport Campaigns." "The Closing Scene of the Iliad," by William C. Lawton, will be of interest to all classical students. One of the most readable articles in the number is "Fictions in the Pulpit," by Agnes Repplier...