been attached to the completion of a great work of public architecture, was wholly eclipsed by a political incident. The socialists in the Reichstag refused to rise to their feet in honor of the Emperor William. All sorts of measures are pending against the socialistic party, and there has been much threat of legal proceedings against the socialist deputies, under the German law which defines lèse-majesté and provides penalties for conduct which insults or dishonors the monarch. Whatever the terms of the law may be, nothing could be a worse mistake in practical policy than to bring the processes of the criminal law to bear against men who have simply been guilty of rudeness. The socialist deputies would never have refused to rise in deference to the presence of the grandfather of the present Emperor, and discreet conduct on the part of this sovereign may yet win for him the personal respect of all political groups. Meanwhile, under the Chancellorship of Prince Hohenlohe, the policy of socialistic repression is to be pursued relentlessly. The consequences are likely to be the still more rapid growth of the social democratic movement.

The death of Princess Bismarck not The Death of Princess merely removes an interesting woman Bismarck. from the European stage, but it deprives the foremost world-statesman of his experienced and devoted nurse. Prince Bismarck, happy in many things, was especially blessed in his wife. Great as he appeared to the outside world, he ever seemed even greater in her faithful and adoring eyes. She was to him all that Mrs. Gladstone is and was to Mr. Gladstone. Marriage certainly does not seem to have been a failure in the case of the foremost statesmen of modern Europe. But for their wives neither Mr. Gladstone nor Prince Bismarck would have been able to do the work they have done. It is by no means all nectar of roses to be a great man's wife. It requires a selfsacrifice which is only possible to a great woman.

The Death of Count

The French were prepared for the death of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps. His great de Lesseps. age and the complete loss of his faculties had so completely removed him from the scenes and contests of active life, that he was already reckoned with those who had been gathered to the majority. M. de Lesseps was seventy-five years old when, fifteen years ago, he founded the Panama Ship Canal Company and began operations. Six years ago he and his colleagues were compelled to retire from the enterprise, the failure of which was at last admitted. Gradually his marvelous vitality failed, and his mind became a blank. Until his eighty-fifth year, however, he retained a higher degree of vigor and capacity than most men possess at sixty-five. His great career had a sad ending, but he will be remembered for his success at Suez, rather than for his failure at Panama. After all, it was as a diplomatist rather

island of the South Seas that its one eminent resident had passed away from this life. Many of us had regarded Robert Louis Stevenson as the foremost living writer of the English language. He was still a young man, having reached only his forty-fifth year. He had been in declining health for a number of years, and had made Samoa his home because of the climate. He was a marvelous master of style, and a mighty story teller. His work will live as long as the classics of English literature keep their hold on the generations of men.

"LECTURERS ARE TO BE SENT TO AUSTRALIA IN THE INTERESTS OF IMPERIAL FEDERATION."-CABLE.

J. BULL (lecturing on the British Lion): "In conclusion, I would say that he is the most amiable, the most sagacious animal in the world, and is very fond of children, and if any little boy in the audience would like to step up and put his head in the lion's mouth he will be given the opportunity. He may get swallowed, but, in that case, it will be a comfort to know that he has become an integral part and parcel of the boundless and glorious British Empire."-From the Sydney Bulletin (N.S.W.).

From Sydney Bulletin (N.S.W.).

THE COREAN WAR.

The First Installment.-From Fun (London).