I he Review of Keviews. 



Jnht 1. 1906. 



rattqitinitJ] 



LTuriu. 



Kaiser and Chancellor 



KAISEK : " Geimanj- with so many curiosities does not. 

 alas! possess a volcano lilte our faithless friend!" 



BULOW: "Don't say that, your Majesty; both as volcano 

 and lava you are equal to Vesuvius and Pelee and all tlie 

 rest."' 



it was more than a niisfortiine, it was a crime, "that 

 England and her coUmies separated in the eighteenth 

 centiH'v. He had always hi)ped and believed that 

 there would be a time of uninn ; and that the Anglo- 

 Saxon race would be united he was as rertain as that 

 the sun would rise to-morro« . Xot bad for a French- 

 Canadian this ! 



iiig, the Liberals h ive secured a decided majority. 

 Out of 316 seats for which returns had been received, 

 the Revolutionists lia.d returned 30 members, the 

 Constitutional Democrats 160. other Liberal groui)S 

 about 28, making a solid bloc nf Progressives 218 

 strong. Of the remaining 98 members only about a 

 ihird are said' to be Reactionary, the others are not 

 ileclared partisans. The Duma will contain more 

 Labour members in the shape of peasants than any 

 Parliament in the world. All its members are paid, 

 .ind the jxjasant members are to be provided with 

 cubicles in the Parliament House of Russia to save 

 llieni the cost of paying for lodgings in St. Peters- 

 burg. What a microcosm of Muscovy the Taurida 

 Palace will be,/ fraught with what vast incalculable 

 i)Otenti:!lities of good and evil ! 



The K;user is a godsend to the 

 The Kaiser newspapers. But whv does he not 

 ana nis '. ^ • . , . 



Austrian Second, exercise an economy in his erup- 

 tions ? Surely with Vesuvius in full 

 blaze and San Francisco in ruins he might have 

 held over his Count Cioluchowski tele;: ram to a sea- 

 son when there was a slump in news. But even with 

 those rival sensations bis telegram has not failed 

 to command attention. The Kaiser is so delight- 

 fullv human,. so naively outspciken. that his utter- 

 ances have a.li the charm of the oudmrsts of a clever 

 child. The popular belief that he acts always from 

 deeply-laid podcy and long-ir.etlitated calculation is 

 all nonsense. The Kaiser is as impulsive as Mr. 

 Chamberlain. He was ajiparently nettled at the 

 way in which Italy supported France at AJgeciras. 

 Therefore he fired off one of his rocketty telegrams 

 to Count Goluchowski, in which he sa\s: — 



I feel impelled to express to you Jrom my heart my sin- 

 cere thanks for your unsliakable support of m.v represen- 

 tative — a fine deed of a true-hearted ally. You have proved 

 yourself to be a brilliant second on the duelling g:rouDd. 

 and you maj' be certain of similar service in similar case 

 for me. 



Was there ever so characterstic 

 outburst since the Kruger telegram? 



and 



impolitic an 

 It has offend- 

 d Italy, it has not pleased Austria, and it cer- 

 tainly has not edified the friends of Germany at 

 home or abroad. 



Progress 



in 

 Russia. 



The news from Russia last month 

 is distinctly good. The new loan 

 of ;£92,ooo,ooo, issued at 5 per 

 cent., has been well taken up in 

 France. England, Austria, and Holland. Germany 

 and the United States held aloof. Thirteen mil- 

 lions were allotted to London, and the amount was 

 covered three times over — a fact which may be re- 

 garded as the overture to an .Anglo-Russian entente. 

 The Dunu proceedings will lie watched with intense 

 interest throughout the world. .According to the lat- 

 est returns issued, while 129 elections were still pend- 



The Truce 



in 



Hungary. 



Last month .Austria seemed head- 

 ing straight for war n ith Hungary, 

 Suddenly, with the sensational 

 raiiiditv of a transformation scene, 

 the crisis v.inisbed, and the world learned with 

 amazement that nearly all the Opposition leaders 

 had accepted office under the premiership of Dr. 

 Wekerle. M. Kossuth, Count Apponyi, Count An- 

 drassy, and Co'.int Zichy, all took the oath of office 

 to the Emperor-King, who was rejjorted to be ex- 

 tremely happy — not without cause. The basis of 

 the truce was that the General Election should be 



