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...CENTURY.The leader is an article on Repin, the greatest of, Russian painters, by Isabel Hapgood. Then follows the first installment of the widely advertised new story by Mrs. Burton Harrison, author of the "Anglomaniacs." It is illustrated by C. Dana Gibson and he has never done better work than in the scene at the opera house. It seems as if book-illustration has no room for improvement, such is the excellence of this work...
...bring the most envy to the soul of the long-suffering Harvard man is that which is devoted to the baths. When one hears of twenty-one shower baths, he looks with rueful comparison at the accommodations which the Hemenway gymnasium at present offers. Besides this, there are Turkish, Russian, and ordinary baths. These are nickel plated, put in at an expense of $500 each, and are provided with thermometers to regulate the temperature of the water. Adjoining these showers are sweating and rubbing rooms, and a circular, hot air drying room with a glass dome, and a lounging parlor...
...Russian Imperial government has granted $200,000 for a medical school for women, to be established in St. Petersburg...
...thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning in St. Petersburg, the drosky-driver, Russian tea, and the Imperial guard review - are perhaps the best part of the story, for they exhibit a keenness of observation and strength of diction which are not apparent in many Advocate stories...
Five hundred students of the University of Kief have been arrested by the Russian government for revolutionary actions...