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A literary criticism of the book "The Overland Passage" is presented. It states that the Suez Canal offers faster transit and became a favourite passage. It adds that the public are curious to every circumstance related to the route. It details the story which focuses on travellers' journey to India and the Middle East. The author comments that the adoption of new modes of spelling the Oriental names are unnecessary and that the story needs to be improved.

The article offers information on the periodical "Sâ ïrin-i Hind (The Flying Sheets of India)." It states that the periodical, which was made in Benares, India, was divided into literary and scientific part and political and miscellaneous intelligence part. It also mentions that the journal was edited by Hindu literari, Bhaïrav Praçâd and Harban Lâl, who attempted a purely scientific publication with "Mirât Ulalum" (Mirror of the Sciences).

The article discusses the history and development of war engines in the U.S. It states that introduction of percussion and detonating guns with mechanical arrangements for caps has been essential to safe repeating firearms construction. It says that ancient Eastern firearms brough by Lord William Bentinck from India indicates the efforts to produce firearms that can repidly fire.

The article discusses the prevalence of various contrasts in India, which comprises of independence and submission, wealth and need, and self-government and autocracy.

The article presents information about authors who have contributed papers to the October issue of the periodical "North American Review." Two Englishmen, Leslie Stephen and R.D. Osborn, an Indian officer, do the best writing in this number of the North American. Osborn's account of the siege of Delhi is very graphic and interesting. It was well enough known before how it is that the English maintain themselves as masters of millions in India, but it is a vivid flash of light on the subject when one is told of John Nicholson's having been adopted as a god by a new sect of fanatics which arose at his death.

The article presents information on the relationship between India and China. The Indian Government has become involved in a difficulty with the State of Thibet which, unless treated with the utmost patience and gentleness, may easily grow into an issue of a truly formidable character. Thibet, as every one knows, is regarded as sacred territory by the Mongolians and other Buddhist subjects under the sway of the Chinese Emperor. It would in all probability cost the Emperor his throne if he tamely acquiesced in the occupation of the capital, Lassa, by a foreign force and the whole strength of the empire would be put into the field in order to avert the contingency of its permanent detachment from China.

This article discusses the matter related to the U.S. politics and economics, and around the world. The cause of the trouble is obvious enough. The Republican party has fallen into the control of men who have lost all faith in sincerity in politics, or in the intellectual capacity of the people to distinguish between humbug and honesty in party professions. These men firmly believe discussion. It will be hard for protectionists to explain the enormous increase of the cotton manufacture of India in recent years. he amounts of cotton consumed by the mills in successive years, beginning with the above date, are as follows, in thousands of bales: 268. 308, 379, 398, 457, 531, 597, 643, 726, 85-the figure for the year just closed being estimated, but sufficiently accurate.

The two great countries of Asia that are governed to some extent in accordance with European principles have both accepted a certain responsibility for the lives of their subjects. The native dynasties of India never undertook to provide for their people during times of famine. Such visitations were accepted as the act of God and as beyond human control. Nor was any different view of their duty at first accepted by their English successors. It was not until 1838 that East India Co. made the attempt to deal with famine on a great scale, and this attempt was not very successful. During the famine of 1866, the Government of India, by prompt action in establishing relief works and distributing food, has prevented the outbreak of panic that in former years has been so disastrous by causing the drifting of population into congested masses, among which cholera and other epidemic diseases were sure to prevail. In the case of Russia, the contrast is not a favorable one. The prohibition of the export of rye can scarcely fail to do more harm indirectly than; any enforced cheapness of that grain can do well. In Russia, legislation has long since been in effect looking towards the supply of grain during a famine, both for the support of the population and for seed.

This article presents information regarding books to be published in the year 1893. In the early summer Harper & Bros. will bring out a new historical romance by General Lew Wallace, "The Prince of India, or, Why Constantinople Fell." Meantime, they are about to issue "Whittier: Notes of His Life and of His Friendships," by Annie Fields. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is about to publish a digest of its proceedings, journals, MSS , letters, and reports, with a record of all the missionaries whom it has supported, from the date of its incorporation in 1701 to the present time.

The article presents editorials on various social and political developments of the world. The United States Congress has been convened in extra session ten times since 1789; one such session, which began in Washington on Monday, closely resembles to the Congress, which met on September 4, 1837. Then, as now, the commercial depression had urged the Executive to convoke Congress in extra session. One of the editorials informs that during the past fifteen years the U.S. have been frequently told by the silverites that the Indian wheat-growers and other producers were gaining an advantage over the American citizens in the export trade by reason of the decline in silver.

Presents letters to the editor referencing issues and topics discussed in the previous issues of the journal "The Nation." Comment on the educational facilities in a small Southern college; Comments on Maharajah Dhuleep Singh's life; Discussion on relations between Sikhs and the British government in India.

The more it is concerned, the more wonderful appears the sway of Great Britain over India. Two North Atlantic Islands, smaller in area than the state of California, controlling a territory four thousand miles distant in the torrid zone, thirteen times their size, and with eight times the population. It was a territory held so firmly and yet so lightly as to require but one-twentieth in proportion to population, the display of military force required to attach a component part of that kingdom, professing a common Christianity, and conquered seven hundred years ago.

This article discusses a tourist place Gujarat in India. There is no hotel in this interesting old town is probably the reason why it is so neglected by European and American tourists. There are other temples and mosques well worth visiting, but these, despite theft attractiveness, are not the main charm of the town. For Ahmedabad is the chief city of old Gujarat, and here are preserved batter than anywhere else certain sects and institutions which have remained almost untouched since the Middle Ages.

India is a very uncomfortable country, but so interesting that one does not notice discomfort until there is leisure to think about it. Drought makes every road a river of dust; other rivers are dried up. Grain is poor as well as scarce and garden products are sapless. As for food, the traveler is in a bad way. Apropos of the famine is a curious instance of the relations between Government and the natives which was unwittingly recorded this week by the Government organ, the Pioneer.

This article presents information, related to political and economic affairs of several countries. The commission appointed to settle the details of the treaty of peace of the U.S., with Spain, has practically only one point to consider, and that is the retention of the Philippines, in whole or in part, by the United States. Eventually President of the U.S., must decide this question, but evidently he does not want to decide it. The figures showing the extent of the foreign commerce of the Dominion of Canada for the last fiscal year are a reply to the claims of protectionists, who continue to assert that the increase of the trade is the result of the Dingley tariff, although the decrease of imports has had some embarrassing results. Dispatches from London say that the project for establishing the gold standard in India is to be carried into effect, or at all events to be tried. The British bimetallists have been proclaiming with great volubility, ever since the project was first broached, that it could not be done.

This article presents information related to the U.S. politics and economics, and other such international affairs. The results of the municipal election at San Juan, in Puerto Rico, which has just taken place, are very instructive oil the question of the political capacity of the people of that island. A condition of great tension had been reached in Kentucky before the crime of murder had been added to the combustible matter collected at Frankfort. At a recent meeting of the Vice-Regal Counsel of India, it was announced that the expenditure on. account of the famine was estimated at between thirty and forty million rupees for the period up to the end of March 1900.

The article presents updates from the publishing business. Ginn & Co. have almost prepared "Nature Study and Life," by Clifton F. Hodge for publishing. John Lane will shortly publish "Esoteric Christianity, or the Lesser Mysteries," by the late Annie Besant, and "Ancient Royal Palaces in and Near London,' by Thomas R. Way, with 24 full-page lithographs in a limited edition of 100 copies. Also fittingly intended to be the first of the "Rulers of India Series," fortunately delayed till the last, the volume on Asoka, by Vincent A. Smith incorporates the most recent discoveries in regard to the Emperor and his time.

In his speech at the Indian Art Exhibition at Delhi, Lord George Curzon urged the native princes to stand by their own beautiful art. He deplored the tendency of adopting European fashions of furnishing merely because they are European, and showed that the future of the finer industries of India depends upon the presence of a body of intelligent patrons who will hold artist and craftsman to their best. Lord Curzon thinks he sees a remedy in the revival of national spirit and taste in the East itself. And, clearly, the redemption of Eastern art must come in this way, or not at al. The artist artisan does his best only for the patron of his race, from whom he may count upon complete appreciation.

This article focuses on various political and economic issues around the world. In selecting ex-Senator Henry G. Davis for the vice-presidency, the Democratic Convention chose a candidate who should not have been considered, because of his age, eighty-one years. Every one who remembers the keen political excitement over the wheat crop prospects in the autumn of 1896, and the rapid rise in price, will admit that harvest developments have some bearing on a presidential contest. The Canadian finance minister will have a better knowledge of Yankee ingenuity after the has experimented a while with his anti-dumping policy. The original sunrise as to why the British expedition went to Tibet receives confirmation from the reply to the courteously apprehensive questions address led by the U.S. state department to the British Foreign Office. The process of benevolent assimilation goes bravely on in the Dutch East India possessions.

Presents letters to the editor on various issues. Discoveries related to archeology in Java; Effect of Buddhism on Mongols; Obstacles in the progress of India.

The article discusses issues related to politics. U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root's overhauling of the U.S. State Department is on every account praiseworthy. He is introducing in the records the same methods that almost revolutionized the Record and Pension Office of the War Department when he was at its head. It seems to be Root's forte to take official machinery, which excellent predecessors had either regarded as reasonably satisfactory, or else had given up as hopeless, and make it genuinely efficient. The twenty-second annual meeting of the Indian National Congress began last week in Calcutta, India. Since, it is the most important unifying force in the diversified population of India, any large scheme of autonomy must naturally center about it. The Congress has enjoyed the favor of the Government because of its adherence to a legal and peaceful propaganda.

The article presents some socio-political updates of the world as of November 7, 1907. It was a singular political fate, which made Secretary of State for India, John Morley responsible for the government of India at a time of unrest and danger. Himself an old Radical, sworn enemy or everything that looks like oppression or tyranny, it has been Morley's official duty for the past year, as to employ every resource of the law against seditious agitation. In another update, the London, England, Library has lately come into possession of 600 volumes, which were once owned by writer Leslie Stephen. All of them have to do with religion or philosophy, and every volume has marginal notes in Stephen's hand, or drawings from his pencil.