NIHILIST

was the name given originally only to the Ru ian followers of Bakunin and Herzen, out it now applied to all Ru ian revolutionists. Their policy is all destructive, and lacks the vitality of constructive one. Till 1874 they committed little or no violence, bnt in that year the police began to interfere with them, with the result that in 1877 about too persons were exiled to Siberia; and ever since Nihilism has been synonymous with violence. Amongst the immediate victims were Generals Trcpoff, Mezentzoff, and Drenteln, Prince Kropotkin, and Commander Hezking and in 1881 they murdered the Czar. Alexander II., by; a bomb thrown beneath his carriage. September, owing its flood to the melting of snow among the Aby in i an mountains. The whole fertility of Egypt depends on the annual inundation. a Nil on, Christina, was bom in 1843, and in 1857 a attracted the attention of a wealthy patron, who sent her to Stockholm and then to Paris. She appeared as ‘Violetta’ in Traviata’’ in 1864, and visited London in 1867. Her fame rests most on her ‘Ophelia’ in Thomas’s “ Hamlet/’ and her 'Margaret ’ in Gounod’s “ Faust/’ political history, are—Slave Tradte abolished in 1807; Reform Bill in 1832, Repeal 6f Corn-Laws in 1846; Jews admitted to Parliament in 1858, Rfepeal bf Paper Duty in i86r, Public Execution stopped in i863j Elementary Education Act in 1870, Ballot Act in 1872; Factory and Workshop Act in 1878^ Primrose League founded in 1881, Franchise Act in 1884, Conversion of Consols in 1888. children that she provoked Apollo and Artemis to kill them all, and she herself was turned into a stone which shed tears in summer. phere, the rest being mainly oxygen. acid, and nitric acid and its explosive force is thirteen times that of an; equal volume of gunpowder. It explodes from concu ion or from heat, and is exceedingly dangerous to keep. a niece of Madame de Main tenant in 1698. In 1735 he commanded the French army in Italy, and served with distinction under Berwick and Saxe. of Roscellin, that general notions, e.g. such as the notion of ‘pig,’ or »' sugar,’ have no realities corresponding to them, but are merely ' names.’ torpedoes, and the submarine boat, is a Swede. He was born in 1844. 1832. He made a number of expeditions to Spitz bergen, Siberia, and elsewhere, and finally in 1878 he doubled Cape Tchelzuskin, and accomplished the North-East Pa age through Behring’s Straits to Japan. 7th day of the month. 1856, being a detachment of 194 persons from “Pitcairn Island ” (q.v.). of Romanesque. It is generally plain and ma ive and the chief examples of it in England are parts of; Durham, Peter borough, Norwich, and Canterbury Cathedrals. been the minister who, by his retention of the teaduty in 1770, drove the Americans into revolt and so' into independence. as the 8th century. In 795 they established themselves in the Faroe Isles and in Orkney, about 840- they founded the Governments of Novgorod and is Kiev in Ru ia, 870 they settled in Iceland, in 912 under Rolf they conquered Normandy, and at the a same time became nominally Christians. invasions—first, The N. attacked England in two sets of as pagans, from the time of Egbert to that of Alfred the Great and, secondly, as Christians under Sxveyn and Canute.; severe constitutional crisis, very similar to the Rule crisis in Ireland. The demand for greater independence for Norway Is being energetically pre ed by M. Steen and the Liberals, but King Oscar of Sweden has refused to sanction it.