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When day's long course of toil is done, I stand to watch the setting sun Then in the clouds I love to trace I love the wind that blows from thence I love the wind that blows from hence, Across the silent deep blue skies How blue those heaving seas and deep, The sunbeams on their green crests sleep, O land of youth, O vanished land, And can I ever hope to stand Upon thy mountains more? Or in that country where I go, ST. MONANS, FIFE. There it rests, with its back to the brae, Dark on the sunset's ruddy gold, The old church-tower on the western height; The sturdy church, six centuries old, Where pray the living, where find repose Boats in the harbor-nets on the brae, Oh, here Life steps to a heartsome strain; own; And not for any man's single gain, For a master's profit to sweat and groan: And blithely the sails with a stout "yo-ho!" To the mast-head rise as they outward go. Come luck, come lack, one deal to each: And what though a grave in the sea his Holds it one hollow where God is not? Ah! still do I dream of that grey old Its murmur of waves, its sheltering calm; balm Till over my soul in a flood-tide free, Blue-dim through reek from the chimneys Oh grey St. Monans, beside the sea. From The Fortnightly Review. COREA AND THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Although thousands of travellers visit Japan, comparatively few of them visit Nagasaki, and fewer still make the tour from Nagasaki up the eastern coast of Corea to Vladivostok and further into Siberia. The prominence which these names have acquired from recent events, their "actualité," as the French express it, attracted me to go and study, for a short time, the places themselves in the summer of 1895, on my way from China to England by the C. P. R. walks" of planks, as commonly seen in new American cities. You take six stout planks, some twenty-five feet long, and lay them side by side, and you continue the process for the requisite number of versts, or miles (three versts are two miles), and the "sidewalk" is complete, save for a few props and nails where the ground is too soft, or the foundation degenerated into holes. The droshkas are driven by redheaded, snub-nosed, Russian izvozchiks in low, glazed, stove-pipe hats with very curly brims, red sleeves, pleated black skirts, and high boots. In them one often sees, lolling as passengers, a couple of frowsy Chinese, or a still frowsier Corean. The fare is only eighty kopeks, or one shilling and eightpence an hour, or over half an hour; and from point to point there are tenpenny and fivepenny fares, accord The détour is a pretty long one, one hundred and sixty miles from Nagasaki, in Japan, to Fusan, Corea; three hundred and four miles from Fusan to Gensan, or "Port Lazareff," the northern port of Corea on the east coast; three hundred and twenty from Gensan to Vladivostok; Vladivostok to Iman by rail, two hundred and eightying to distance. The regulations forbid miles over the easternmost section of the Great Siberian railroad; Iman to Khabarofka, down the Iman River, then down the Ussuri-into which the Iman flows-and into the Amur, which receives the waters of the Ussuri-two hundred and sixty miles. From Khabarofka one may descend the great river Amur, which flows northward six hundred and fifty miles or more, as far as Nikoláefsk, where it throws itself into that part of the Pacific called the Sea of Okhotsk, in latitude 53° north. Vladivostok has the aspect of an inferior Hong Kong, of about a quarter the size. Hills crowned with forts rise round it up to a height of eight hundred feet. It lies on the south side of a peninsula, twenty miles long, called Maraviéf Amursky, in 43° 6' 51" N. latitude, and 131° 54′ 21′′ E. longitude. The town is between four and five miles long, but is straggling and unconnected, and of no breadth. Some streets are very steep, and all are horribly dusty in dry weather, being never watered, and being continually crossed in all directions by droshkas driven at a smart pace. Instead of pavements, the streets have "side charging more, but, with fine irony, allow the driver "to take less, if he likes." He may not leave his cab to take care of itself, may not "sing, make a noise, or cause a disturbance;" he must temper his pace to a "town trot," and "keep to the right-hand side of the road." The troika has a dashing look; the horse in the middle trots under the arched duga, whose object and effect, when properly put on, is to keep the shafts at the same distance apart. The small horses right and left are cantering, and their bodies incline a little outwards from the car. In Vladivostok are few complete triple teams; generally there are only the "middle horse" trotting, and one other cantering on its near side. The water-barrel on wheels, drawn by horse or bull, and often driven by a soldier, is a frequent sight, carrying water up to the forts, and to the upper town. A funnier horse-vehicle is the sit-astride, cushioned beam, on which izvozchik and cloaked and spurred officer sit, with dangling legs, one behind the other, the officer behind. The Chinese here keep excellent shops, in good brick buildings, while |