All the World Trip Like This To tour the Great Lakes and their connecting rivers would, under any circumstances, be a journey full of charm and interest; but to make the round trip from Buffalo to Duluth by the magnificent steamships of the Northern Steamship Company is to experience the most delightful 2,000 miles of travel it is possible to take. STARTING from Buffalo at 10:15 P.M. on any Tuesday or Friday during the summer season, the route is through Lake Erie, touching at Cleveland early the next morning, and at Detroit that afternoon, passing through the "straits," the beautiful Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair River by daylight, then into Lake Huron and through that great inland sea, reaching historic Mackinac Island at 10:30 the second morning, thence up the extremely picturesque St. Mary's River, dotted with full 5,000 islands, and passing through the "Soo" and its world-famed locks, all by daylight. The following night and day are spent on the vast expanse and in the invigorating atmosphere of Lake Superior, Duluth coming into sight as the evening shadows fall. After threequarters of a day in the Zenith City, the return trip is made in the reverse order, so that the entire route is seen, going or coming, by daylight, and Buffalo reached at noon of the seventh day. "Seven halcyon days of blessed rest," worth a month's ordinary vacation to the weary brain and tired body. While to this unequaled cruise for rest and health and pure enjoyment Nature has contributed so much that is grand and beautiful, nineteenth-century progress, as evidenced in the flourishing cities, summer resorts, and the immense commerce of the lakes, has added that requisite so necessary to interest one and so noticeably lacking in a mere ocean voyage. But it remained for the Northern Steamship Company to bring all within the experience of the tourist by a fleet of steamships which are to the Great Lakes what the finest hotels are to the most celebrated summer resorts. The North Land and The North West are, indeed, nothing less (and at the same time a great deal more) than great summer hotels afloat. Banish from your mind at once any idea of the "cabined, cribbed, confined" quarters of the ordinary steamship, and replace it with the picture of private parlors en suite with bath, brass bedsteads, couches, easy-chairs, electric lights, etc, statercoms finished in Cuban mahogany. with No freight is carried. Every precaution and every appliance known to marine architecture of the very latest type for the safety and the convenience of the passenger. The cuisine is equal in every respect to that of the finest hotels, while the appetizing air gives zest to the enjoyment of the meals peculiar to this ozone-laden atmosphere. mile. The price of the round-trip ticket from Buffalo to Duluth and return is $29-less than 12 cents per The price of berths, staterooms, and suites of rooms varies, according to the location, capacity, and elegance, from $9 round trip. Meals are served à la carte, so that their cost can be regulated by the passenger. The menu prices are moderate, and, liberal portions being served, two or more persons traveling together can materially reduce the cost of each. Passengers wishing to make longer stops at Cleveland, Detroit, Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. Marie, or Duluth than are made by the steamship can obtain stop-over checks good for the entire season. Connections are made at Duluth with the Great Northern Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad, and diverging roads, for all points farther west to Yellowstone Park, Great Falls, Helena, Butte, Pacific Coast cities, and Pacific Steamship lines. Further particulars will be furnished by addressing Northern S. S. Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Or any railroad ticket agent. W. C. FARRINGTON, Vice-President. Copyright, 1897, by The Outlook Company. Entered as second-class matter in the New York Post-Office. THE WEEK: The Jubilee.... 519 Great Britain's Naval Supremacy 519 England and America 519 Germany's Struggle Against Militarism. 520 CONTENTS FOR 3 JULY, 1897 Some Literary Associations of Geneva... 555 By Elbert Francis Baldwin Russia's Population 520 The Hawaiian Annexation 521 323 By Hamilton W. Mabie My Lady's Celebration: A Fourth of July Direct Legislation 524 Lynch Law Defeated. 524 By Everett T. Tomlinson BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Human Marriage (Westermarck and Mc Agricultural Colleges in the West. 526 Cheaper Electric Lighting.... 527 The Outlook is a Weekly Newspaper, containing this week 132 pages. Price. The subscription price is Three Dollars a year, payable in advance. Ten cents a copy. Postage is prepaid by the publishers for all subscriptions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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There have been other pageants more brilliant; there has never been any which so completely represented the civilization of the globe, expressing itself freely and almost spontaneously through every manifestation of royalty. There can be no doubt about the almost passionate attachment of the English people for their Queen, nor can there be any doubt that this attachment is based not not only on appreciation of private character, but also upon the splendid expansion of the English race during her reign. Vast crowds, probably the vastest ever collected in any single locality; the presence of troops from the four quarters of the globe, and of a great number of nationalities; many princes and premiers; splendid decorations and perfect management, gave the celebrations of the week in London and elsewhere a perfection of order and form which such ceremonials often lack. The Queen seems to have borne the fatigues of the week with astonishing vitality, and is described by the correspondents as showing in every way her intense enjoyment of a world-wide expression of admiration and affection. As an act of homage nothing like it has ever been received by any earthly ruler, and it is eminently satisfactory that this unique act of homage from the world was paid to one so worthy to receive it. The celebration was arranged with the utmost skill so as to present nearly all the phases of English life, but it culminated in a magnificent exposition of the imperial idea. There is no doubt that the key of the celebra No. 10 tion has been the presence of the eleven Colonial Premiers, and the use of the occasion to cement still more closely the ties which bind the colonies to the mother country. The imperial idea was impressively emphasized by the naval review which took place off Portsmouth last Saturday. To some onlookers it must have seemed the most important demonstration in connection with the Jubilee, and as an exhibition of British war-power it was the most significant. Of the one hundred and eighty war-ships present (our representative being the Brooklyn) one hundred and sixty-five were ships of the British navy. The notable naval work of the Granted past decade is evident when we realize that all of the cruisers and torpedo-boats at Portsmouth were built during that time, and that only four of the battle-ships were in service at the other jubilee celebration in 1887. It is said that during these ten years Great Britain has spent a billion dollars on naval defense. that this exhibition of power is necessary, the enormous cost must weigh heavily on the taxpayers. That which has been attempted, however, has been amply achieved-namely, the world's renewed conviction that "Britannia rules the waves," for the number and power of British vessels form the defense of an empire on which the sun never sets. When Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the navy list comprised 129 ships, the largest of which had a displacement of four thousand tons. This year's navy list comprises 439 vessels, with a total displacement of nearly one million five hundred thousand tons. All the leading Governments of the world were present by representatives at the Jubilee, but it is to be noted that the special representative of the United States, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, was treated with the most conspicuous and special attention and courtesy. Our representative was singled out among all the ambassadors of the great nations as the recipient of royal attention; was given a foremost place on the day of the great celebration, as was also General Miles in the procession; was invited to the most exclusive dinners and parties; was the only foreign representative not a royal prince on the royal yacht at the time of the review; and in every possible way received unusual attention and honor. This was not a matter of accident; it was evidently the intention of the authorities to give to the United States a place of precedence in the great festival, because the United States stands nearer to England in blood, history, and political organization than any other country. The two great nations are kinsmen, and the English people recognized that kinship and honored it in every possible way last week. The hand of friendship which they held out in the day of their rejoicing will not be thrust aside by the people of America. Whatever may be said by some public men, and however the antagonism to England may be used from time to time for political purposes, the American people are, below all divisions of time and national antagonisms, the kinsmen of the English people. Blood is thicker than water, and President McKinley's gracious letter to the Queen, and the gracious response which it has received in every possible form from the English Government and the English people, furnish the best evidence of the essential unity in feeling, tradition, and political ideals of the two great families of the English-speaking race. Standing on a ground of absolute equality with the mother country, unwilling to receive any favor or to overlook any slight, but with measureless possibilities of friendship with a respect ed equal, this country can count on the friendship of England in any great or sore trial, and England can count on the friendship of America under like circum stances. In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies the Law of Association Amendment Bill, commented upon in these columns two weeks ago, has met with a severe setback, which must be taken, in view of the Emperor's known determination to push the bill through, as a deliberate notification to the Kaiser that Germany is not yet at his feet. The Deputies have defeated the amendments which would have practically put all political association and expression of opinion through public meetings under the supervision of the police magistrates, and which would, therefore, have paved the way for the almost complete suppression of public opinion in Prussia. In the form in which the bill is now before the Chamber of Deputies it merely excludes minors from political meetings and associations, and there seems to be no likelihood that it will pass in the offensive form in which it was originally submitted. The Prussian Constitution insures to every male Prussian, without regard to age, the right to attend public meetings, and the bill, even as amended, involves, therefore, an amendment of the Constitution. This involves several considerable delays and the operation of a good deal of legislative machinery, and at some point in the process the bill is likely to be killed. The belief is very general among the German Liberals that the bill is even more significant than it seemed at the start; that is to say, that it is the initial move in a well-planned and comprehensive reactionary programme. The Liberals are in arms all over Germany against the possibility of such a policy, and many of the open-minded Conservatives are equally against it. Prussia, as the home of the military spirit, is, very naturally, the home of the reactionariesthe strong, old-fashioned German Toryism; and it is hardly necessary to say that the old German Toryism was absolute in its antagonism to all modern political thought, and to everything like freedom of popular action. That the bill is unpopular even in Prussia, and has been robbed of its most offensive features in the very strong. hold of German Toryism, is the best possible evidence that the sentiment of the Empire is against the one-man power which the Emperor is desirous of establishing. இ Prince Kropotkin has recently contributed to the " Geographical Journal" a very interesting analysis of the census of |