Review of Eeiiewa, I/12/0S. 



Character Sketch. 



569 



4. It is absolutely necessary, if the elections for the 

 Duma are to be carried out intellicently. for you to give 

 IMMEDIATE orders to forbid all interference with the 

 organisation of electoral committees, and the holding of 

 meetings at which the more intelligent can address the 

 peasants and explain the duties of an elector. At present. 

 as Mr. Grinmuth eoniiilaiiis, the orders which forbid 

 meetings are only obeyed by the friends of the Government. 

 The revolutionary iiropagandists hold secret meetings, and 

 there are no means of counteracting them. 



5. It seems, therefore, to an English observer familiar 

 with the holding of elections that nothing is more 

 urgently needed than an immediate abolition of all orders 

 or ordinances preventing the free intercourse for electoral 

 purposes of all classes of the community. If the educated, 

 law-abiding landowner is not allowed to address the 

 peasants freely to explain the law and interest them in 

 the elections, the field will be left open only to the law- 

 breakers, who will secretly do you all the harm they can. 

 As you cannot catch the wolves, please take the muzzles 

 off the sheep dogs. Unfortunately, your police at present 

 often treat all sheep dogs which do not we.ar the official 

 coll.ar as if they were worse than the wolves themselves. 

 Believe me you will need the help of all the good does you 

 find. 



To this letter I had no reply. 



The rest o£ the story is soon told. When the 

 strike broke out it was decided to forbid the Revo- 

 lutionary gatherings in the universities. General 

 Trepoff issued his famous order to the troops not 

 to spare cartridges. I left St. Petersburg that night. 

 The next day, at Helsingfors, the most eircumstan- 

 tial stories were circulated to the effect that the 

 General had been assassinated by a man who, in 

 discharging his fifth .shot, cried : " I also have not 



spared cartridges." It was all a lie ; but for a day 

 or two it produced a great effect in Helsingfors, 

 then simmering on the eve of revolution. 



TBEPOFFS END. 



When Witte accepted office he endeavoured to 

 keep Trepoff in his old post. The prejudice against 

 the masterful Mayor of the Palace was too strong. 

 He resigned, and from that time devoted himself 

 to protecting the person of the Tsar at Peterhof. 

 His influence was great : and Witte's friends openly 

 accused him of organising pogroms in order to em- 

 barrass the Ministry. Be that as it may. General 

 Trepoff at last definitely declared himself in favour 

 of Constitutional Government. When it was evident 

 that the Tsar must choose between the dissolution 

 of the Duma or the appointment of a IMinistry pos- 

 sessing the confidence of the majority of that body, 

 he unhesitatinglv gave his voice in favour of the 

 latter course. When challenged for a reason why he 

 proposed placing in office the Cadets, with ISIilyukoff 

 at their head, he replied that he thought the alterna- 

 tive, the dissolution of the Duma, would render it 

 almost impossible for him to answer for the safety 

 of the Tsar. His advice was rejected. The Duma 

 was dissolved. The Con.stitutionalists were driven 

 into the arms of the Terrorists. But although General 

 Trepoff died of a broken heart, his dread as to the 

 possible effect of this policy on the safety of the 

 Tsar has not been realised. 



W. T. Stead. 



INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX. 



{Continued frotii fa-^e 655.) 



DECEMBER ISSUE— 



Progress of the World, :>:i\. 

 The New Individualism, 547. 

 What the Law Can Do, r..")!. 

 Interviews on Topics of the Month, "i-'^. 

 Correspondence, X',. 

 Character Sltetch — 



General Trepoff. 563. 

 Impressions of the Theatre, -'iTo. 



Leading Articles in the Reviews — 



The French Naval Manrpuvres, 574. 

 The Career of Bu Bekir in Morocco, 



574. 

 The Duchess and the Cripples. 574. 

 Amid Snow and Ice at the Equator. 



575. 

 Ix)rd Aberdeen's Canadian Eancb, 57.5. 



The Apotheosis of British Sculpture. 

 576. 



Mark Twain's Autobiography, 576. 



The Diversity of Messenger Duty, 576. 



Abdul Hamid, the Sultan, 577. 



The Pap.1l Aggression in France, 578. 



An African Pompeii, 579. 



Tlie Lottery ot Racehorse Buying, 579. 



From the Occult Magazines, 579. 



An Attack Upon English Law, 580. 



Tlie Sultan, the Kaiser and Great Bri- 

 tain. 531. 



Pan Islamism, 582. 



More About the German Diabolus, 583. 



German Education Under Fire, 584. 



Ballooning as a Pastime. 585. 



What Mr. Beit's Will Has Done, 585. 



Tlie ■\wakcning of China, 535. 



Tile Premier of Russia, 586. 



How to Reform the House of Lords, 58 J. 



A British View of German Manoeu- 

 vres. 537. 



How the Greek Clergy are Trained, 

 587. 



President Roosevelt and Spelling 

 Reform, 588. 



Why Women Write Good Detective 

 Stories. 589. 



C.'uiine Intelligence. 589. 



A New Kind ot Rubber, 589. 



Reviews Reviewed, .")93. 

 Esperanto, <'iiiii. 



Current History in Caricature, 605. 

 Book of the .Month, (ill. 

 Leading Books of the Month, (ilti. 

 "In the Days of the Comet," 017. 

 Insurance Notes, (!:.'!•. 



