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The Calcutta Review January 1897

1897

Towards the town the ►oon-light glints on the marble pinnacles pinnacles and battlements of the palace but the great mass of the building is in deep shadow and darkest of all are the steal and lofty walls of the zanana which fall sheer ifftethe_blue depths of the lake. [...] These are foil %v (1 by a brief historical outline of the history of Russia from the prChristian daxs of the Norman dukes down to the end of the sixteenth century with a fine description of the coronation of the last Tsar of the old Norman line and a brief note of the election of the first Romanoff though Milton nowhere men tions the since famous name of that splendid dynasty. [...] After them and preceding His Holiness came the officers 'of the Military Household the Prelates of the Privy Chamber Mosignor the Maj-r domo Monsignor the Grand Chamberlain all the high (fficials of the Vatican Court and the Roman Prince attached to the Papal throne as the traditional and symbolical defender of the rights of the Church. [...] And the sound of their chaunted hymn seemed to swell to the colossal propotions of the temple ; rose with the voice of a mighty storm over the giant monuments of.marble among the super-human statues acounO the cyclopean columns up to the vaulted roof unrolling the illimitable expanse of a sky of stone into the blue heaven of the vast Dome opening up glimpses of the Infinite in the golden g [...] As for this Pope before him to-day discrowned and dethroned as he was Pierre could clearly discern through the fragile mask of senility through the bloodless transparency of the waxen image of humanity the fire of the lust of sway the inherited passion of universal empire the spirit of the Pontifex Maximus of the Caesar Imperator in whose veins flowed the blood of Augustus the master of t
history
Pages
213
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art I—Udaipur and the Royal House of Mewar
1-11 unknown view
Art II—Milton’s History of Russia
12-21 unknown view
Art III—Rome by Emile Zola
22-61 F.H. Tyrrell view
Art IV—Mahomedan Ascendancy in the Deccan
62-91 T.C.L. view
Art V—Akbar and the Parsees
92-106 R. P. Karkaria view
Art VI—The Rise of Socialism in France
107-122 Arthur Holmes view
Art VII—Personal Time
123-138 James Furrell view
Art VIII—Sir Richard Temple
139-144 unknown view
Art IX—Female Infanticide in the Punjab
145-186 M.L. view
The Quarter
187-197 unknown view
Critical Notices
i-x unknown view
Acknowledgments
xi-xiii unknown view

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