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sister Nan has made Oldhouse over to the Theosophists, the sect 

 founded by Madame Blavatsky, which she has joined. 



" As I was at dinner a telegram from Rothstein was brought me 

 announcing the death of Mustapha Kamel. Though Malonv had 

 written me news of his illness only a few days ago, the telegram was 

 to me a great shock. 



" wth Feb. — The news of Kamel's death is in all the papers. 



" Morley has announced in Parliament a punitive expedition in 

 India against the Agha Khels. In this, as in all his policy at the 

 India Office, he follows the permanent official lead, being the weak 

 man he is. 



" To London and saw Rothstein who gave me the Egyptian news. 

 Mustapha Kamel had been ailing for some time past and had had a 

 congestion of the lungs from which he was recovering, but going out 

 too soon had a relapse. His, however, has always been a frail life 

 and the first time I saw him, a year and a half ago, I doubted whether 

 he would live long. We had a suspicion then that he took some drug, 

 probably morphia, as a stimulant to enable him to do his excessive 

 work. He always lived at high pressure and seldom took a rest. 



" J2tJi Feb. — Brailsford called to consult me about a visit he is 

 to pay to Egypt. I explained the situation there as far as I knew it and 

 besought him to do his best to encourage Mustapha Kamel's followers 

 and find a successor for him and bring about a fusion of the various 

 sections of the National Party. Brailsford goes with me in believing 

 that a forward policy of strong opposition to the English occupation 

 is the only one likely to have any effect. A policy of supplication will 

 obtain nothing. Brailsford is a thorough going good fellow, a quite 

 sound Nationalist, with some experience of the East ; I am glad he is 

 going to Cairo. 



" To see Shaw's play, ' Arms and the Man,' which amused me im- 

 mensely. I laughed from beginning to end of it. There is not a 

 word in it that is not good, and it is a splendid reductio ad absurdum 

 of the romance of war. 



"13th Feb. — The Paris 'Temps' has a panegyric of Mustapha 

 Kamel. Fifty thousand people followed his funeral at Cairo, so says 

 Reuter, though the ' Times ' reduces it to ten thousand. This is a 

 wonderful testimonv to so young a man. He was only thirty-four. 



" 20th Feb. — Mohammed Farid has been chosen to take Mustapha 

 Kamel's place in Egypt. It was he who, at the Mohammedan Con- 

 ference, at Algiers, had the courage to denounce French rule there. 



" Morley has begun a new war in India against the Afridis under 

 the direction of Kitchener, whom in 1889 he attacked for his brutalities 

 of warfare in the Soudan. Now he finds it all right and proper. 



" There has been talk of intervention by Austria and by Russia 



