Illustrations
| General Alexei Nicholaevitch Kuropatkin | [363] |
| Kaiser Wilhelm I | [369] |
| Prince Otto Von Bismarck | [372] |
| Count Hellmuth Von Moltke | [373] |
| The Chancellor’s Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse | [374] |
| The Battle of Königgrätz | [374] |
| Emperor Napoleon III | [376] |
| “Jane and Selina ... Looked at Patient and Nurse with Disapproving Gloom” | [378] |
| “She Could Not Help Seeing That Selina Found Some Strange Pleasure in all These Incidents of a Last Illness” | [382] |
| Ellen Terry as Kniertje in “The Good Hope” | [387] |
| John Singer Sargent | [388] |
| Sir Edward Burne-Jones | [388] |
| Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth | [389] |
| Peggy, Madame Sans-Gene, Madame Sans-Gene, Cordelia | [390] |
| Imogen, Lucy Ashton, Catherine Duval, Lucy Ashton | [390] |
| Cardinal Wolsey, Lady Macbeth, Guinevere, Thomas Becket | [391] |
| Nancy Oldfield, Hermione, Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire, Lady Cicely, Wayneflete | [391] |
| Miss Ellen Terry | [392] |
| Sir Henry Irving | [392] |
| Ellen Terry as Queen Katherine in Henry VIII | [395] |
| The Book and Its Covers | [401] |
| “Pardon Me,” He Said, “But What Are You Doing That for?” | [402] |
| “Ye’d Better Be Usin’ Your Brains to Walk With, and Not Strainin’ Thim Like That” | [407] |
| Midnight in the Kara Sea | [411] |
| “The Country of the Dead”—A Study of the Kara Sea in August | [413] |
| Samoyed Love of Color | [414] |
| Painting of a Sledge Set Upon End for the Night, With Skins and Meat Hung Upon It So as to Be Out of Reach of the Dogs | [415] |
| A Study Made in Nova Zembla at the Time of the Complete Eclipse of the Sun, July 27, 1896 | [416] |
| Painting of a Church Built by M. Seberjakow | [417] |
| In the Midnight Sunshine | [418] |
| His Need of Mis’ Simons | [432] |
| ‘I Couldn’ Git ’Long ’Thout Yer Noways, Could I?’ She Say | [433] |
| ‘She Keep on A-Readin’, an’ I Keep on A-Wukkin’ on de Paff’ | [434] |
| ‘It’s Time Fer You ter Go to Baid, Ain’t It, ’Zekiel?’ She Say | [435] |
| ‘’Tain’ Gwine Nobody Else Git—Fru—Dat—Do’,’ She Say | [436] |
| The Bunk-House | [459] |
| One Night the Graf Was Prevailed Upon to Tell His Story | [461] |
| The Sitting-Room of the Bismarck | [462] |
| I Noticed a Profile Silhouetted against the Window | [463] |
| St. Francis of the Bunk-House | [464] |
| They Sat on Their Rumps Outside the Circle of Kafirs | [467] |
EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FIVE ARTICLES
A DISCLOSURE OF THE SECRET POLICIES OF RUSSIA
BY
GENERAL KUROPATKIN
Once in a generation the intimate and vital secrets of a great nation may be made public through one of the little circle of men to whom they are entrusted; but rarely, if ever, till the men are dead, and the times are entirely changed. Beginning next month, McClure’s Magazine will present to the reading world a striking exception to this rule. It will print for the first time a frank and startling official revelation of the present political plans and purposes of Russia—the great nation whose guarded and secret movements have been the concern of modern European civilization for two centuries.
GENERAL ALEXEI NICHOLAEVITCH KUROPATKIN
General Kuropatkin—Minister of War and later Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces in the great and disastrous Manchurian campaign—became a target for abuse at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. He returned to St. Petersburg and constructed, from the official material accessible to him, an elaborate history of the war, and a detailed statement of the condition, purposes, and development of the Russian Empire. Documents and dispatches endorsed “Strictly Confidential,” matters involving the highest officials, information obviously intended for no eyes but those of the innermost government circles, are laid forth with the utmost abandon in this work. No sooner had 364 it been completed, than it was confiscated by the government. Its manuscript has never been allowed to pass out of the custody of the Czar’s closest advisers.
An authentic copy of this came into the hands of McClure’s Magazine this spring; it is not essential and obviously would not be wise to state just how. George Kennan, the well-known student of Russian affairs, now has it in his possession and is engaged in translating and arranging material taken from it for magazine publication. A series of five or six articles, constructed from Kuropatkin’s 600,000 words, will be issued in McClure’s, beginning next month. These will contain astonishing revelations concerning matters of great international importance, and accusations that are audacious to the point of recklessness.