Review of Kevieics, 20/3/06. 



History of the Month. 



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From stereographs, copyright 1906, Underwood and Underwood.} 



The Conference at Algeciras. 



Mohammed El Torres, the Sultan's Envoy, the " Honest Man 

 Morocco, leaving the hotel to attend the Congress. 



of 



poses of international hospitality. Without an ac- conclusion, owi 

 tive policy of this kind, adequately financed by some difference betw 

 such small charge in the Esti- 

 mates, the new Cabinet may have 

 a pious aspiration after peace, 

 but it will not be able to do any- 

 thing to ensue it. 



The The King of 



King of Spain Spain has after all 

 and thrown his hand- 



nis Betrothed, kerchief to an 

 English Princess, and she, whether 

 for love of him or from an am- 

 bition to share a throne, has 

 promptly renounced her Protes- 

 tant faith in order to qualify to be , 

 Queen of Catholic Spain. Princess 

 Ena of Battenberg evidently con- 

 siders that a crown is well worth 

 a mass. Her alacrity in forsak- 

 ing the faith of her fathers has 

 created some scandal North of 

 the Tweed, where " the orthodox 

 wha believe in John Knox " look 

 askance at those who so lightly 

 assume the livery of the Scarlet 

 Woman of the Seven Hills. But 

 the Princess w^ll probably need 

 all the consolation of both the 

 Protestant and Roman religions to 



enable her to support the insuffer- 

 able boredom of the ceremonial 

 of the Spanish Court. 



In the midst of 

 The Conference the General Elec- 

 of Algeciras tion few people 

 troubled them- 

 selves in Great Britain about the 

 Conference on the Moroccan 

 question which has been sitting, 

 and which to all appearance will 

 continue to sit indefinitely, at 

 Algeciras. There seems but 

 slight prospect of any agreement 

 being arrived at. All the cooks 

 have assembled to discuss with 

 what sauce the Moorish duck 

 shall be eaten. But the Moorish 

 duckj being still alive and vigor- 

 ous, objects to be eatea at all, 

 and as the cooks cannot agree to 

 give any one or more of their 

 number a mandate to twist the 

 duck's neck, the Conference seems 

 likely to be barren of results. 

 . The probability at present seems 

 to be that the Conference will 

 fail to arrive at a satisfactory 

 ng not so much to any ineconcilable 

 een France and Germany, as to the 



From stereographs, copyright 1906, Underwood and Underwood.] 



Herr von Radowitz (on the left) end Count Tattenbach, the German 



Delegates. 



