The National Magazine. New Series. A Monthly Review. May 1902

All the laureats of the salon prizes and the winners of the bourses de voyage have not responded to the appeal of the organisers of this interesting manifestation. [...] It was not easy to gather the works and submit them to the public that is the works of which they were the laureats In entering the Salon Octagbnal one is surprised to see some outlines of M. Cormon's decorations for the Museum and also his famous picture the Mart de Ravana that secured the triumph of the Salon in t875. [...] The Statesman of the 26th October in a well-written article said — In 1888 the enquiry instituted by "Lord Dufferin into the condition of the poorer classes throughout t" India elicited from the Commissioner of Patna the opinion that the population of the Division which contains 16 million souls "are insufficiently fed to say nothing of clothing and lousing ; 44 and that they have to undergo l [...] Some of the causes of the poverty of the.people of India are as follow :— (t) The extravagant cost of the civil and military administrtion of the country. [...] The Government has to import highly paid officers from England and a drain of wealth from this country is constantly going on in the shape of Home charges pensions of the retired officers the remittances of the officers for the education of their children at home and the like.