'M. Doumer, now President of the Chamber of Deputies, has written an admirable book detailing his experiences 8 Governor of French Cochin Chins. He thas put his finger on some of the evils of real outrages. Who is the author? Many incline to the belief that the Russian secret police themselves been the instigators with the view diverting French public opinion from the tragic events of St. Petersburg.
Anarchist Plots.
ten or twelve years since Paris suffered from a veritable epidemic of
with ub vi and four persons we! Avarchist crime. The Republic acted yillotined. Restaurants have been the scene of several outrages of the kind. The restaurant Very, in the Chateau @'Eau quarter and the cafe Terminus, at the Gare St. Lazaro, are both noted as the objective of bombs. The assassination of President Carnot, by the Italian Cassini, seems to have been the signal for the recrudescence of Anarchist activity. Nowadays, however, with the extreme organisation of the police, it is difficult to imagine that s plot of s serious kind could be set on foot without the authorities having some inkling of it Once when Felix Faure was President and was making a tour in the provinces bomb was discovered. Butane of the "King Lear." In contrast with the Shakespearean tragedy, with which Parisians, though they did not care to confess it, were immeasurably bored, ie a bright little play entitled ' Awourette," presented for the first time lest night.' Love-making is " very serious occupation on the French stage asa rule, but here we have the young man 20 earnestly. nervous and pied that he grasps the lady's pet jog instead of her own fair person at the moment.of his declaration. Nevertheless, the atidience is not shocked at this trifling with so sacred a subject. The comedy circles about a motor-car in whi that writer seem to be equally in place.
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