of them to devastated homes, to broken factories, to ruined coal-mines. Let us never forget that the Germans, of malice aforethought, destroyed the industries of France, that they themselves might capture the markets of Europe after the war. That is the essential fact. And let us resolve that, until France has rebuilt her factories and re opened her mines, we will not encourage the Germans in commerce by sea or by land. Herein justice and friendship join hands, and if we are determined upon a policy which is at once friendly and just, we can neglect all the pinpricks, which we either give or take, in obedience to the subtle suggestion of interested foes. Printed by William Blackwood and Sons. Entered as second-class matter, July 3, 1917, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 Single Copy 50 Cents Yurovsky; and the Murder of the Tzar by CAPTAIN FRANCIS MCCULLAGH A remarkable account of one of the darkest episodes in modern history by one who has personally visited the scene of the murder and conversed with his assassins. The most tragic story of the Great War told for the first time. Capt. McCullagh had the advantage of very unusual opportunities for the collection of the information contained in this account, which forms one of the most important articles in any recent periodical. In the September number of THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER STRANGE that the death of a woman of ninety-five should seem to those who knew her well the one incredible thing. Yet this, I am certain, was the feeling with which, on the 12th July, hundreds of people read the news that the Empress Eugénie's long life had come to a close. There seemed no reason why she should not live on indefinitely nor any for wishing it might be otherwise, since the one shadow that darkened her later years (though she herself never believed it could not be dissipated), the dread of total blindness, had passed away. There are two conditions, I think, which determine fitness to survive: your own interest in life must be unimpaired, and further, you must possess the certainty that your company VOL CCVIII.-NO. MCCLX. I. is still eagerly desired by your friends. Suoh was more emphatically the Empress's case, surely, than that of other mortals who have reached so great an age. One felt convinoed, too, that as she had been, so she would be to the end; that there would be no gradual failing-no sad period of death in life, which is the fate one most dreads for the old. And so it turned out. Well in health, back in Spain again, after years of absence, and among her own people; her sight painlessly and, as it seemed, miraculously restored; congratulating herself on having faced an operation that if painless was formidable, glorying in the fact that it was a Spanish doctor who invented the method. . . behold her one 2 E |