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Rh might suppose to have been written by the same pen; of Admiral Reveillere, of the Marines, an exceptionally energetic and patriotic writer; lastly, the writings of Gaston Moch mentioned above, who long before he felt it safe to sign his own name to his books, used the expressive pseudonym, Patriens, and and many others whom there is not space to mention.

A number of periodicals might be mentioned. The Revue which is devoted to politics and literature; the Revue Bleue, and sometimes a scientific journal, Revue Rose, contain articles of great value on arbitration, on the disbanding of armies and on contemporary events, thus accustoming their readers to direct their attention to problems formerly too muchneglected. There is the "Paix par le Droit," which began as a modest little paper, published at long intervals by a society of young people, and which has gradually become a monthly magazine of considerable importance. There is l'Europe Nouvelle, in which are carefully collected, together with unedited works, all writings which bear upon that grievous wound, opened by the sword in 1870, in the bosom of France, and which cannot be healed except by repudiating the sword and the works of the sword. At Berne, that neutral center, there are beginning to group themselves, like the savory pulp about the stone, all the best and most fruitful aspirations of the chosen ones of Europe, there is published the Conférence Interparlementaire and the Correspondance du Bureau International de la Paix. In this case a simple mention will not suffice, and those of my readers who are best informed in regard to these institutions will most readily give me permission to spend a a few moments in explaining their value and importance.

I have spoken of peace societies, and how rapidly they have multiplied; but I have not spoken of their international meetings.

It is generally known, I suppose, that every year, since 1889, in one city or another on either continent, for in 1893 suc a meeting was held in Chicago, peace congresses are held, in which are assembled members or delegates from all the peace societies in the world. In Paris, in 1889, not less than a hundred representatives were present. But not everyone knows