THE NINETEENTH CENTURY A MONTHLY REVIEW EDITED BY JAMES KNOWLES VOL. IX. JANUARY-JUNE 1881 LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. - THE DAWN OF A REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH. By H. M. Hyndman THE THREE 'F's.' By Lord de Vesci THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. By Mr. Justice Stephen A GLIMPSE AT NEWFOUNDLAND. By the Earl of Dunraven THE EXHIBITING OF PICTURES. By T. Villiers Lister THE RELIGION OF ZOROASTER. By Professor Monier Williams, PAGE 1 THE TRANSVAAL. By Sir Bartle Frere, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.S.I. THE CREED OF A LAYMAN. By Frederic Harrison . SMOKE PREVENTION. By Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. THE STATE OF PARTIES. By T. E. Kebbel . THE PARSIS. By Professor Monier Williams, C.I.E. OUR NEXT LEAP IN THE DARK. By Earl Fortescue TRANSPLANTING TO THE COLONIES. By W. M. Torrens, M.P. THE BASUTOS AND SIR BARTLE FRERE. By William Fowler, M.P. LONG AND SHORT SERVICE. By Lieut.-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, LA PHILOSOPHIE DE DIDEROT. By Paul Janet, Member of the In- BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. By Lord Sherbrooke PEACE IN THE CHURCH. By A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. PROFIT-SHARING. By Sedley Taylor FRENCH VERSE IN ENGLISH. By William M. Hardinge RELIGIOUS FAIRS IN INDIA. WEST-END IMPROVEMENTS. By the Hon. Maude Stanley O CARLYLE'S LECTURES ON THE PERIODS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE. Transcribed by Professor Edward Dowden THE NEW IRISH LAND BILL. By the Duke of Argyll A REVISER ON THE NEW REVISION. By the Rev. G. Vance Smith . THE INTELLIGENCE OF ANTS. By George J. Romanes Lefevre, M.P. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. No. XLVII.-JANUARY 1881. THE DAWN OF A REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH THERE have been several periods in the history of Europe when all thinking men have felt that remarkable events could not long be postponed. Even within the last hundred years the French Revolution and the great Continental movements of 1848 were preceded by changes which betokened a serious shock to existing institutions. Careful observers predicted the approach of both the one and the other, though neither took precisely the anticipated shape. But never, perhaps, has the certainty of approaching trouble, social and political, been more manifest than it is to-day.' The issues are more complicated than ever before, and that they can be settled without grave disturbance is scarcely credible. Of the political dangers by which Europe is threatened we hear daily. They are serious enough. With the whole Eastern Question reopened in a most dangerous shape-with Russian Panslavism and German ambition to reconcile with Italian aspirations and French yearning for the lost provinces to gratify all the nations being armed for war as they never were Since this was written, Baron Hübner has delivered his remarkable speech in the Austrian Delegations. From his ultra-Conservative point of view, he regards all Republican or Democratic ideas as proceeding direct from the Author of Evil, and proposes an immediate renewal of the Three Emperor League, or Holy Alliance, to stem the flood of revolution ere it is too late. Has not the time almost gone by' for this combination of Governments against peoples? |