Surrounding me and pouring over me. Sicilia (_In memory of Salvatore Garrito who was hanged at Reading, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1908, for the killing of a State Trooper._) “It shows you on that paper where she lives, In Sicily. Write her that I today Am dead for having killed my second man.” “Your second?” “Yes, sir, two. It’s not so bad To kill a trooper. But I killed, before, A friend who, like my brother and like me, Loved her in Sicily. The jury thought My brother did it. He’s been all alone In jail eight years. Tell her I shall be glad If now she gets him out and marries him.” Christian Truth heard him ask employ And took him in, A poor unfriended boy, As her own kin, And everything she made She taught the youth. When he had learned her trade He went from Truth. And when his eyes were dim And he was rich, Then Truth returned to him Out of a ditch, Poorer than he had been, Pleading she came... He would not let her in Nor ask her name. Marriage Shall marriage never be the glory That was wooed? But ever enervate and vex, Obstruct, intrude, And make more wistful and complex The solitude, Trying to tell the human story To its brood? No matter how the homes are humming In a mood Of ecstasy or sentiment Or love renewed, What favored two can circumvent The ancient feud?— Till both in one shall die, becoming Multitude! A Glimpse at Russia Wars have been the landmarks in Russian modern history. The Napoleonic war was followed by the insurrection of the Decembrists, the first attempt on the part of liberal Russia to break the autocracy. The iron reign of Nicolas I culminated in the Crimean campaign, which revealed the utter rottenness of the old order and necessitated the general reconstruction of the estate, from the liberation of the serfs to the establishment of jury-tribunals. The reaction under Alexander III and Nicolas II came to a collapse with the Japanese war, more disastrous and richer in results than Sebastopol. It may be interesting to notice that each of the mentioned epochs followed the previous one at a space of about a quarter of a century, and the fact that the present war broke out only ten years after the last one may be interpreted as an attempt for self-correction on the part of History. Both the war with Japan and the revolution that came as its result were abortive and premature phenomena, and were destined “to be continued.”