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10. Nikola Pashitch, a famous Serbian statesman, was born in 1842 of obscure parentage, and was educated in Switzerland. He interested himself in politics from an early age, and came to the front in 1881, when he formed a Radical party which demanded the liberation of the Serb lands from Turkish and from Austro-Hungarian rule. Having stirred up an insurrection, Pashitch was condemned to death. He was, however, reprieved, broke prison, crossed the Bulgarian frontier, and fomented an agitation until King Milan was forced to abdicate. Early in King Alexander's reign he became Prime Minister, sometimes retiring from office to return to it almost immediately. In 1893 he was made Serbian Minister at St. Petersburg. Pashitch never condoned the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga in 1903. He returned to power in 1904, and in April, 1906, induced the regicides to abandon political life, thus making possible the resumption of political relations between Serbia and Great Britain. In 1909 Pashitch realised that Serbia could not risk war with Austria, but strengthened the Army and stabilised the position of the dynasty. He finally compelled the wild Prince George to renounce his rights in favour of his brother Alexander. In 1912 he supported the Balkan League, which effectually drove the Turk from the Balkans. Whether Pashitch was privy to the Sarajevo murder cannot, as yet, be said with certainty; throughout the war and during the peace-making, he was the representative politician of the new kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. In 1921 he was once more Prime Minister.

11. Sir William Tilden, whose work on the specific heats of metals won wide recognition, was born in London in 1842 and educated at Bedford School and at the Royal College of Chemistry in Oxford Street. He was Demonstrator in Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society from 1864 to 1872, science master at Clifton College from 1872 to 1880, Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy at Birmingham from 1880 to 1894, and in 1894 he succeeded Sir Edward Thorpe in the Chair of Chemistry in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, retiring in 1909 as Emeritus Professor of the Imperial College of Technology. He served as President of the Institute of Chemistry from 1891 to 1894, and of the Chemical Society from 1903 to 1905, and received a knighthood in 1900. As a scientific investigator Tilden was known for his work on the constitution of turpenes, and he gave attention to the relation of specific heats of metals to atomic weight. His results were described in the Bakerian lecture for 1900 before the Royal Society, which awarded him the Davy Medal in 1908. He wrote many books on chemical subjects, and also a Life of Sir William Ramsay " (1918), and “ Famous Chemists: The Men and Their Work" (1921). Sir William Tilden was twice married, in 1869 to Miss Charlotte Bush, and in 1907 to Miss Julia Mary Ramie. Lady Tilden survived him, with the son of his first marriage.

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13. Jean Richepin, aged 77, poet and playwright, was born at Medeah, in Algeria, and educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. His "Chanson des Gueux" (1876) was his highest achievement in the way of revolutionary defiance, and he received for this volume of poetry a month's imprisonment. "Les Caresses," "Les Blasphemes," and La Mer were other volumes of his poetry. Incidentally Richepin went to sea and worked as a dock labourer at Bordeaux. He wrote many brilliant dramas of which "La Glu" was the most remarkable. He wrote also "Le Filibustier," "Par la Glaive," "La Martyre," and "Don Quichotte," which were put in the repertory of the Comédie Française. In 1897 "Le Chemineau was produced with the music of Xavier Leroux. He himself played with Sarah Bernhardt in his "Nana Sahib." He wrote several novels and many stories, but from 1900 onwards confined his literary efforts to journalism, and became known as an orator. But he was, before all things, a poet, a mixture of Hugo and Baudelaire; an insurgent against divine and social laws, but a great writer. In middle life he settled down and became an admirable père de famille. His last public appearance was as director of the Académie Française at the reception in 1926 of M. Georges Lecomte.

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13. Lord Emmott, industrialist and politician, had built up a solid reputation as a leader in Lancashire industrial life before he entered Parliament. Alfred Emmott was born in 1858, the son of Thomas Emmott of Brookfield, Oldham, a cotton spinner, and his wife Hannah, daughter of John Barlow of Chorley. He was educated at the Friends' School at Kendal and at Tottenham, and took a London University degree in 1880. In 1881 he was admitted a partner in his father's firm, Emmotts & Wallshaw, cotton spinners, Oldham, and later he became its managing director. He became also President of the Oldham Chamber of Commerce, of the Master Cotton Spinners' Association for Oldham, and in 1891-92 was Mayor of Oldham. In 1899 he entered Parliament as Liberal member for Oldham. In 1906 he was again returned by a large majority, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman made him Chairman of Committees. Emmott himself was a moderate Churchman, and in the education disputes of 1902 he exercised a moderating influence; in the excitement regarding Mr. Lloyd George's Budget of 1909 and the Parliament Bill of 1910 he exhibited an equally singlehearted devotion to the responsibilities of his office. Lord Emmott's peerage was conferred on him on Mr. Asquith's recommendation in 1911 after his five years' work as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker. In 1911 he became Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and from 1914 until the formation of the first Coalition Government he was First Commissioner of Works. He then became Director of the War Trade Department (an honorary position), and devoted all his energies to making this Department, so vital to victory, a success. After the war he took little part in party politics, but resumed his business interests. He became Chairman of Platt Bros. & Co., Oldham, and a director of Manchester Liners, Ltd., of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, and of the National Boiler and General Insurance Co. In 1921 he was President of the World Cotton Congress held in Manchester and Liverpool. Lord Emmott was regarded as an ideal employer in Oldham. In 1887 he married Mary Gertrude, daughter of John William Lees of Oldham, who survived him with two married daughters.

14. Dr. Hugh Campbell Ross, famous for his researches into the causes and nature of cancer, was born in 1875, the son of General Sir Campbell Ross, K.C.B., and educated at the Isle of Wight College and St. Thomas's Hospital. Having qualified as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1898, he travelled for a while in Egypt and China. In the South African War he served as a surgeon and received five clasps to the Queen's Medal. From 1902 to 1906 he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy, and from 1906 to 1908 he was medical officer of health at Cairo. There he started measures for the extermination of mosquitoes. In 1908 he went to Liverpool and became Director of Special Cancer Research at the Royal Southern Hospital. In 1910 Dr. Ross was appointed Director of the McFadden Research Fund at the Lister Institute, Chelsea, and advised the Home Office regarding industrial cancer and certain miners' diseases. He invented molybdenotungsten ultra-violet light processes, and introduced tungsten drugs and new medical tests. He wrote "Induced Cell Reproduction and Cancer" in four volumes (1914), and contributed the chapter on Egypt to his brother, Sir Ronald Ross's, "Prevention of Malaria " (1910).

18. General Sir James Willcocks, G.C.B., a distinguished soldier, was born in 1857, the fourth son of Captain W. W. Willcocks, of the East India Company's service. He was educated privately, passed into Sandhurst in 1877, and in 1878 was gazetted 2nd lieutenant in the 100th Regiment, then quartered in the Punjab. After seeing a good deal of service in various parts of India, including frontier fighting in 1897, he was sent as second in command of the new Niger force to be raised in West Africa. With his Ashanti Field Force he relieved Kumasi where Sir Frederic Hodgson was beleaguered, and for this was created K.C.M.G., promoted Brevet-Colonel, and given the freedom of the City of London and a Sword of Honour. Colonel Willcocks served in South Africa in 1902,

and again in India, where, in 1910, he was appointed to command the Northern Army. On September 10, 1914, he was given command of the Indian Army Corps of the British Expeditionary Force, retaining command till September, 1915, and having become a full General in May. In 1917 he was made Governor of Bermuda and served the full term of five years. He was awarded the D.S.O. in 1887, created K.C.S.I. in 1913, K.C.B. in 1914, G.C.M.G. in 1915, and G.C.B. in 1921, and was also a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Sir James Willcocks had brilliant literary gifts, and published three memorable books, "From Kabul to Kumassi” (1904), “With the Indians in France" (1920), and The Romance of Soldiering and Sport " (1925). In 1889 he married Winifred, second daughter of Colonel Way, C.B., 7th Bengal Infantry, who survived him with one son, Major J. L. Willcocks, D.S.O., M.C.

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22. Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I., aged 73, was the son of the Rev. John Wilson, D.D., minister and historian of the parish of Dunning, in Perthshire. He passed the Indian Civil Service Examination in 1873, graduated at Edinburgh University in 1874, and went up to Balliol College, Oxford. Here he obtained the Boden Sanscrit Scholarship in 1875, but did not stay to take his degree. He was posted to the Punjab and became, in time, Under-Secretary to the Punjab Government and Secretary to the Financial Commission. In 1900 Wilson became a member of the Punjab Legislature, and in 1901 he was made C.S.I. for famine work. From 1903 to 1907 he was Secretary to the Government of India in the Revenue and Agricultural Department. In 1908 he became Financial Commissioner for the Punjab. At this period he conceived simultaneously with Sir Lionel Jacob the idea of the Triple Canal Irrigation project, which he lived to see add enormously to the economic wealth of the Land of the Five Rivers. He was promoted K.C.S.I. in 1909 and retired in 1911. Sir James settled in London and became Superintending Inspector under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in Whitehall, and a Governor of the Agricultural Organisation Society. In July, 1914, he was appointed permanent delegate for Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome, and became Times correspondent on the cereal crops of the world. Moving to Crieff, from 1917 to 1921 he was Chairman of the Central Agricultural Wages Committee for Scotland. He wrote "Farm Workers in Scotland," "Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire," and "The Dialects of Robert Burns,” and published "Scottish Poems of Robert Burns in his Native Dialect." He wrote, also, works on tribal customs and dialects in India, and a grammar of Western Punjabi. Sir James Wilson married, in 1888, Anne Campbell, daughter of the Very Rev. Norman Macleod, D.D., who survived him. He lost his only son in the war.

25. Yoshihito, Emperor of Japan, the 122nd of the Imperial Line, was born in Tokio in 1879, in the twelfth year of his father's reign. The Prince was brought up to hardy habits in spite of his delicate health, and his education, though he remained always in Japan, was most diverse and enlightened. In 1886 he entered the School of Peers, where he was carefully instructed in military science, and in 1889 he entered the Army and was proclaimed Heir Apparent. In 1900 he was married to Masako, fourth daughter of Prince Kujo, aged 16. In 1912 the Crown Prince succeeded his father, Meiji Tenno, and was enthroned at Kyoto, the ancient capital, the era of Taisho ("Righteousness ") being thereupon proclaimed. The Emperor ruled intelligently a nation which had just emerged from isolated national life into industrial and political association with the great nations of the world. He was a lover of French, spoke English, and was versed in the Chinese classics. His life was a struggle against the onslaught of lung disease. He moved freely throughout Japan and once he visited Korea. He allowed his eldest son to visit Europe in 1921, and his second son to proceed to Magdalen College, Oxford. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1912 and appointed a Field-Marshal of the British Army in 1918.

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28. Canon Thomas Leslie Papillon, aged 85, for sometime a leader writer to The Times, and a scholar and educationist of distinction, was born in 1841, the son of an Essex clergyman of the family of Papillon, of Crowhurst Park, Battle. From Marlborough he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar in 1860, and obtained a first class in the classical school, the Hertford Scholarship, and the Latin verse prize. He rowed also in the Torpid and Eight. After holding a Fellowship at Merton College and teaching there and at Rugby for a year, he joined the staff of New College as a Fellow in 1870. He had been ordained soon after taking his degree, and for two years he was Whitehall Preacher. In 1884 he went to the College living of Writtle, in Essex, where he remained till 1909, when he retired to St. Albans, of which Cathedral he was an hon. canon. For years before this he had written for The Times, especially on educational problems, and he remained a contributor to the end of his life. He collaborated with the late A. E. Haigh in a commentary on Virgil, and wrote also "A Manual of Comparative Philology." In 1871 he married Miss Edith Mary Dalton, a daughter of the Rector of Lambeth, and had three children, two daughters who died young, and a son who died at Oxford. Mrs. Papillon died in 1908, and in 1909 he married Miss Laura Dickson, of Writtle.

29. Rainer Maria Rilke, the Czech-German philosophic and lyric poet, was born at Prague in 1875 and brought up in Bohemia. As a young man he lived in Russia, and was attracted by the contemplative life led in the monasteries. Subsequently he went to Paris and became secretary to the great Rodin. Rilke published little, and his work was the outcome of philosophical reflection on the destiny of humanity. He praised the riches of poverty, and towards the end became more and more a nature poet. His last book, "Sonette an Orpheus " (1923), is a series of twenty-nine short poems, with Orpheus as the creator and inspirer of beauty as their central figure.

INDEX.

The figures between [ ] refer to PART I.

ABBOTT, Dr. Edwin Abbott, Obit., 153
ABD-EL-KRIM: capitulation, [155], [235],
[236], [287]; exile, [155], [288]
ABDUL KADER BEY, [207]

ABERCROMBIE, Prof., "Romanticism," 25
ABYSSINIA: appeal of, to League of
Nations, [88]-[89]; attitude of to Lake
Tsana irrigation scheme, [293]; Italo-
British accord, [88], [166]

ACLAND, Sir Arthur, Obit., 152
ADAMI, Dr. J. G., Obit., 147
ADAMS, William, 9

ADLY PASHA (Egyptian Premier), [290]
ADOPTION of Children Act, 90

AEROPLANES, use of, in spraying and
dusting crops, 56
AFGHANISTAN, [251]

India, relations with, [251]
Khost rebellion, [251]
Military activities, [251]

Soviet Russia, Treaty with, [251]

AFRICA, SOUTH, [278]

Areas Reservation Bill, [278]-[280]
Asiatics, position of, [281]
Colour Bar Bill, [280], [282]

Flag Bill, [281]

India, deputation to, [260], [279], [280]
Legislative activity, [278], [282]

Mines and Works Amendment Bill,
[280]

Natal, attitude to Flag Bill, [282]
Nationalist Labour pact, [278]
Native policy, [280]-[281]

Parliament, inter-party relations, [282]
South Africa Act amendment com.
promise, [282]

AFRICA, SOUTH-WEST PROTECT-
ORATE, [283]

Angola boundary dispute, [284]
Parliament opened, [284]

Rhehoboths (Hottentot tribe), claims
of, [284]

AGATE, James," The Common Touch," 25
AGNEWS, exhibition of English land-
scapes, 67

AGRICULTURAL: AGRICULTURE:
Beet sugar subsidy, [10], [44]
Drainage, [10]

Government, policy, [10], [73], [112]
Industry and taxation, [59]

AGRICULTURAL: AGRICULTURE,
cont.

Labour policy, [114]-[115]

Rating and Valuation Act, [112]
Rural labourers' cottages, [86], [126]
Small Holdings Bill, [7], [10], [86],
[112]

Wages Regulation Act, [10]
AGUILERA, General (Spain), [236]
AGUINALDO (Filipino leader), [298]
AHMED Ferad Bey (Turkish Ambassador),
[4]

AHMED Zogu, President of Albania, [215]
AINLEY, Henry (Drama), 70

AIR Force, [12], [13], [14], [15], [30];
Estimates, [13], [14]-[15]; Recruiting,
[17]

AKELEY, Carl Ethan, Obit., 159
ALBANIA, [215]

Frontier question, [215]

Greece, agreement with, [215]
Italy, relations with, [215], [216]
Malissors' revolt, [215]

Oil found at Patos, [215]
Political offences tribunal, [215]
Serbia, Convention with, [215]
Trade agreements, [215]

ALEPPO, riot at, [254]

ALEXANDER, Mr., tea tax proposal, [63]
ALLEN, Sir James (N.Z.), [336]

ALLEN, Miss Mary Gray: benefaction, 3
ALLINGHAM, Mrs. Helen, Obit., 151
AMALGAMATED Engineering Union, [23]
AMERICA: AMERICAN. See under
United States

AMERY, Rt. Hon. L. C. S., Colonial
Secretary, [14]; on Iraq Treaty, [12];
at Imperial Conference, [117]; reply
on question of Australian State Gov-
ernors, [334]

ANDREWS, General L. C. (U.S. Prohibi-
tion enforcement), [83], [302]

ANNER Castle, Ireland, destroyed by
fire, 10

ANTI-SLAVERY Convention (1926), [142]
ARABIA, [255]

Asir, Idrisi Emir of, [256]

British Mission to the Yemen, [256]
British relations with Ibn Saud, [257]
Egypt, relations with, [256]

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