The Indian Review. A Monthly Journal

After the lapse of a certain number of years the land in the village is divided between the members and the work of dividing is one of the greatest responsibilites of the Assembly. [...] No radical change has taken place in the ordnary system of Government but the adminitration of the economic affairs of the district and province was committed to the district and prvincial assemblies or Zemstvos another aspect of local self-government which is of the greatest interest especially in respect of the almost suprising progress made by the Russian people in the matter of [...] But the Zemsvos is a modern institution and represents an attempt to lighten the duties and correct the abuses of the Imperial administration by means of Local Self-Government." A Commission was appointed in 1859 for the purpose of conferring more unity and independence on the local econo mic administration and when the results were published in 1864 the expectations of the Russia"SEPTEMBER. [...] The field of his survey is also not a particular locality or province of India but the whole of India and thus his work differentiates itself from that of many Anglo-Indian writers whose fashion it is to that of only a part of India as the objective of their social or economic studies on the ground of the absence of a uniformity of condtions applying to the whole country. [...] Not as the conqueror comes They the true.hoarted came ; Not with the roll of theotirring drums And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come In silence and in fear ; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer Amidst the storm they sang And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.