At this writing (late in March), the disgraceful and destructive conflict of reckless factions is still raging in the Austrian Reichsrath, and the parties have come to blows several times. The hope of the German extremists for a dissolution of the Empire seems to be more and more openly avowed. On one occasion, "a Czech member, Dr. Sieleny, having accused the Pan-Germans of wistfully glancing across the frontier, Herr Stein, a member of the Pan-Germanic group, replied, 'We do not glance, we gaze.' Being reproached with looking towards Germany with an ulterior motive, the same gentleman answered, 'You Czechs want to go to Russia, and we Germans want to go to Germany.' Again, on being told that he would like to become a Prussian, he exclaimed, 'I declare openly that we want to go to the German Empire.' Finally, in reply to another remark, Herr Stein observed that everybody in the country who was an Austrian patriot was stupid." ----------AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: End-------- AUTONOMY, Constitutional: Granted by Spain to Cuba and Porto Rico. See (in this volume) CUBA: A. D. 1897 (NOVEMBER); and 1897-1898 (NOVEMBER-FEBRUARY). AYUNTAMIENTOS. Town councillors in Spain and in the Spanish American states. See (in this volume) CUBA: A. D. 1901 (JANUARY). B. BABYLON: Exploration of the ruins of the city. See (in this volume) ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: BABYLONIA: GERMAN EXPLORATION. BABYLON: Railway to the ruins. See (in this volume) TURKEY: A. D. 1899 (NOVEMBER). BABYLONIA: Archæological Exploration in. See (in this volume) ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: BABYLONIA: AMERICAN EXPLORATION. BACHI, BASHEE ISLANDS, The American acquisition of. See (in this volume) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1898 (JULY-DECEMBER). BACTERIAL SCIENCE, Recent. See (in this volume) SCIENCE, RECENT: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL. BADENI, Count: Austrian ministry. See (in this volume) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1895-1896. BADEN-POWELL, General R. S. S.: Defense of Mafeking. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (THE FIELD OF WAR): A. D. 1899 (OCTOBER-NOVEMBER); and 1900 (MARCH-MAY). BAGDAD, Railways to. See (in this volume) TURKEY: A. D. 1899 (NOVEMBER); and JEWS: A. D. 1899. BAJAUR. See (in this volume) INDIA: A.D. 1895 (MARCH-SEPTEMBER). BALFOUR, Arthur J.: First Lord of the Treasury in the British Cabinet. See (in this volume) ENGLAND: A. D. 1894-1895; and 1900 (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER). BALFOUR, Arthur J.: Tribute to Queen Victoria. See (in this volume) ENGLAND: A. D. 1901 (JANUARY). BALKAN AND DANUBIAN STATES, The.