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The Review of Reviews. 



AprU m, 1906. 



THE REVUE DE PARIS. 



The most interesting item in tlie February numbers 

 of the Jievu-a de. Paris is the continuation of Un- 

 published Letters by Hector Berlioz, begun in Decem- 

 ber. They are addressed to Liszt. Victor Hugo, and 

 his sisters and other members of his family, and date 

 from 1831 onwards. 



.\ DANTE •• INFER.\0 " IN .VFEICA. 

 In the first February number Felicien Challaye 

 continues his descriptive article on the French Congo 

 Country. The cruel monotony of some parts of the 

 country makes him contrast it with Japan, China, and 

 India. Equatorial Africa, he says, suggests the in- 

 tensest sadness. The great silent solitudes, the dark 

 forests, the immense sheets of water oppress the heart 

 and destroy thought, the heavy moist heat depresses 

 the white man. In no other region are the natives 

 more primitve or more lazy. The brutality of the 

 white man is roused when it comes into contact with 

 the instinctive brutality of the blacks, and European 

 kills them. The book to read here is Dante's " In- 

 ferno," for here there is no hope, only rivers of blood, 

 a land of tears, an abyss of sorrow, a region of eternal 

 misery. The writer says he can never forget this 

 vision of a real hell 



POLITICAL I'ARTIK.S IN RUSSIA. 

 To the same umiiber Maxime Kovalevsky contributes 

 an article on Political Parties in Russia, He recog- 

 nises three parties or tliree tendencies — the party 

 which prefers the maintenance of the autocracy, the 

 party which demands the vindication of the rights of 

 the people with national representation, and the 

 party which desires a reorganisation of the middle 

 classes. One of the chief problems which the future 

 Russian National Assembly will have to deal with is 

 the classification of individuals, not merely according 

 to their politico-philosophical preferences, but accord- 

 ing to their class-interests. 



GERMAN MUSIC. 

 In the second number Romain Rolland has an in- 

 teresting article on Music in Germany in the 

 Eighteenth Century, Notwithstanding the fact that 

 Germany had already enjoyed a century and a half 

 of great musicians, GSerman music in 17.50 was far from 

 occupying the place in European musical opinion 

 wliich it does to-day. Yet about 17.50 Germany had 

 had Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, and she still 

 iiad Gluck and Philipp Emmanuel Bach. The truth is 

 that at that time she was driven into the shade by 

 Italy. 



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